Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival (1969)

The Cavern Club in its original form was a live music venue situated in the basement of a fruit warehouse in Liverpool

External view of the reopened Cavern Club in 2012

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival (1969)

The 1969 Moon Landing and why it pushed the boundaries of possibility

Lunar surface shot shortly after landing during the Apollo 16 mission (1969)

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival (1969)

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister, author and the leading American civil rights campaigner of his generation

Martin Luther King Jr. speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota (1967)

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival (1969)

The Haight-Ashbury is a district in San Francisco, centred in Haight Street and also including Ashbury Street

Haight-Ashbury district intersection in San Francisco, USA

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival (1969)

The Woodstock Festival in 1969 is remembered as a symbol of the Sixties counterculture

Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival (1969)

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival (1969)

Yoko Ono Lennon is a Japanese conceptual and performance artist, singer, songwriter and filmmaker

John Lennon and Yoko Ono recording Give Peace a Chance, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada (1969)

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Events of the decade

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Stonewall Riots

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Woodstock: The Festival of the Decade

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1968 Miss America Protest

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Isle of Wight Festival

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The Vietnam War Protest Movement

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The 1969 Moon Landing and why it pushed the boundaries of possibility

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Influential people

Sixties psychedelic-style background image with flowers pattern

David Litvinoff

British Film Industry Consultant

Nicolas Roeg at the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2008

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Nicolas Roeg

Film Director

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At the heart of the sixties

Nicky Samuel met many key figures from the Sixties. Her memoirs capture the essence of the decade and a panorama of the sexual revolution and counterculture.

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Nicky Samuel's "Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves" book cover by Richard Perceval Graves (Old Cover Version)

Popular Places

Low angle photograph of the Decker Building, 33 Union Square West, New York City, USA (2008)

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The Factory

Andy Warhol’s Creative Studios

Aerial view of the Stargrove House from the distance (2005)

Pam Brophy / Stargrove

Stargroves

Manor in Hampshire

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