Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival in 1969

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

Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival in 1969

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival in 1969

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

Martin Luther King speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota in 1967

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival in 1969

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

Lunar surface shot shortly after landing during the Apollo 16 mission

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival in 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

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival in 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

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Woodstock Music and Art Fair festival in 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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Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon in 1969

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

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Victoria Brooke

Model

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Yves Saint-Laurent

French Fashion Designer

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Laughing elderly woman whilst wearing 60s-fashion clothes

Granny Takes a Trip

London fashion boutique

Former Arts Lab building in Birmingham

Birmingham Arts Lab (1968-1982) - Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Arts Lab

Alternative Arts and Performing Arts Venue

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