6/6 Lord Salisbury stepped down as chancellor a few months later and after 46 years the university awarded an honorary degree to Pete Cresswell, the expelled student.

3/6 Their main demand was for the resignation of the university’s Chancellor, the Marquess of Salisbury, who was an outspoken supporter of the minority white regime in Rhodesia.

2/6 The students had a series of demands which, taken together, amounted to an accusation that the university was trying to ignore the social and political consequences of its policy decisions.

3/4 They had been handing out leaflets headed "Some information for discontented soldiers" which described various ways that soldiers who didn't want to serve in Northern Ireland could leave the Army.

2/6 Shankland's vision for Liverpool was to tear down much of the centre and replace it with “robust and manly” new buildings and a motorway on stilts “curving sensuously” around them.

1/3 Littlewoods Pools was once a household name in Britain. Before the National Lottery arrived, millions of people filled in a weekly Pools coupon, hoping to win a fortune by predicting the outcome of football matches. Every coupon had to be checked and in the pre-computer age it was a massive task

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