The Lives of our Time part 3 “A riot at half three” 1998

BBC Northern Ireland Social History Documentary Series
chronicles life in the the 20th century. Archive footage and interviews with contributors born in the early 1900s detail the changing urban and rural manners and customs. This episode features the 1950s & 60s. Improvements in electricity supply, the introduction of labour saving appliances in the home and on the farm. The National Health Service, Welfare State and Birth Control. Cars and improvements to the education system all made lives so much better although there was still slum housing and over crowding. Unfair allocation of new housing and continued discrimination leading to the Civil Rights movement.