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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

L1 Bloc 2 Social and ethnic identities and conflicts

Billy Casper plays football (Kes) - YouTube

Working class identities in the 1960s : watch a film clip.

Click on the title above to watch a ten minute extract from "Kes", a successful film by Ken Loach. It is about a working class boy in the 1960s, and his experience in the rough school he went to.

The 1960s was a period of a general rise in living standards for the working class, but not everyone benefited, and there were still many pockets of severe poverty.

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