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March 1950: The Ministry of Fuel and Power announced that the petrol ration would again be doubled for the months of June, July and August. [50] April 1950: The Ministry of Fuel and Power announced that the petrol ration would be doubled for 12 months from 1 June. [50] 26 May 1950: Petrol rationing ended. [60]
The 1950s and 1960s experienced continued modernisation of the economy. [65] Representative was the construction of the first motorways . Britain maintained and increased its financial role in the world economy, and used the English language to promote its educational system to students from around the globe.
The rocker subculture came about due to factors such as: the end of post-war rationing in the UK, a general rise in prosperity for working class youths, the recent availability of credit and financing for young people, the influence of American popular music and films, the construction of race track-like arterial roads around British cities ...
26 May – Motor fuel rationing comes to an end after eleven years, marking another stage in the phasing-out of rationing that was introduced in the wake of World War II. [ 16 ] 6 June – The BBC Light Programme first airs the popular radio comedy feature Educating Archie .
Rationing after the First World War was not lifted in full until 1921, over three years after the war's end. Rationing during the Second World War was much more significant, widespread, and tightly controlled. Rationing continued for nearly a full decade after the war, and in many aspects was even stricter than during wartime.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979),
National Service ended gradually from 1957; in November 1960 the last men entered service. With British youth no longer subject to military service and with post-war rationing and reconstruction ended, the stage was set for the social uprisings of the 1960s to commence. Macmillan took close control of foreign policy.
The UK's underground movement was focused on the Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill area of London, which Mick Farren said "was an enclave of freaks, immigrants and bohemians long before the hippies got there". It had been depicted in Colin MacInnes' novel Absolute Beginners, about street culture at the time of the Notting Hill Riots in the 1950s.