Fifty Years Of

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• The Queen

  Helen Lloyd chronicles the events of 1992 : the Queen's 'annus horribilis' : which saw Windsor engulfed by flames, damaging or destroying a significant part of the world's largest occupied castle, and marital strife for three of her children, all played out on an all-too public stage

• Television

  The half-century history of television, beginning with the Queen's Coronation, which was broadcast in 1952 and brought neighbourhoods together round one set, closely followed by the advent of ITV in 1955 and the first colour programme : Wimbledon : in 1967. How did people adjust to the arrival of the box in the corner that started life as little more than a piece of furniture? Last in series

• Work and the Workplace

  The evolution of employment, which has undergone greater changes over the past five decades than during the Industrial Revolution, as companies abandon the patriarchal practices of yesteryear in favour of a virtual workplace where the computer is king. Former factory hands recall the balmy days of job security before economic instability, the demise of pit communities and the rise of union power heralded the start of a more competitive era