20 October 1968 Print Newspaper (The observer)

The labour political party in the time made it a little bit easier to have strikes .
Strike was for women's rights (equal pay).
Lead to an equality pay.
This cover shows when the women's rights were at the forefront.
At the time women were fighting to be heard (women's rights)
Time of feminism and reflects it was a decade of people who stood up for themselves


North Vietnam was communist so America announced that they would bomb it.
This war went on for 27 years
First war that had less bias coverage lead into massive protest in America and UK that war should be over.
First war England wasn't apart of.
The protests reached a level where a monk burned himself alive to prove a point.








Britain won a second gold medal at the Mexico olympics
By a veterinary surgeon called Bob Braithwaite, won clay pigeon shooting competition
The 1968 Mexico olympics was best known for Neil Leifers famous picture of the 'Black power salute'