Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents

by Home Office

The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. People started to become better off and many bought cars and other consumer goods.

for example in relation to divorce and to abortion in England, Wales and Scotland.

Parliament passed new laws giving women the right to equal pay and made it illegal for employers to discriminate against women because of their gender.

Britain and France developed the supersonic commercial airliner, Concorde. New styles of architecture, including high-rise buildings and the use of concrete and steel, became common.

Even so, during the early 1970s, Britain admitted 28,000 people of Indian origin who had been forced to leave Uganda.

television was developed by Scotsman John Logie Baird

Radar was developed by Scotsman Sir Robert Watson-Watt

The first successful radar test took place in 1935.

Sir Bernard Lovell (1913–2012) to make new discoveries in astronomy. The radio telescope he built at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire was for many years the biggest ...

Turing machine is a theoretical mathematical device invented by Alan Turing (1912–54), a British mathematician, in the 1930s. The theory was influential in the development o...

Scottish physician and researcher John Macleod (1876–1935) was the co-...

structure of the DNA molecule was discovered in 1953 through work at British universitie...

Francis Crick (1916–2004), one of those awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery, was British.