{"id":23338,"date":"2018-08-01T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23338"},"modified":"2018-08-01T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T10:00:20","slug":"does-anyone-else-remember-the-im-backing-britain-campaign-of-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23338","title":{"rendered":"Does anyone else remember the &#8220;I&#8217;m Backing Britain&#8221; campaign of 1968?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently attended two lectures at the City Literary Institute in central London which took a 50th anniversary look at some of the events worldwide in 1968 when I was a 20 year old university student.<\/p>\n<p>Those events included the Vietnam War (especially the Tet Offensive), the assassination of Martin Luther King &amp; Robert F Kennedy, the near-fall of the French government following massive student demonstration, the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded that, here in Britain, there was a remarkable and short-lived <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I%27m_Backing_Britain\">campaign called &#8220;I&#8217;m Backing Britain&#8221;<\/a> which called on people to work half an hour longer for no extra pay and to buy British rather than foreign goods. It inspired this crass song by Bruce Forsyth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJRW5z0XHt0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Those were the days, my friend &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently attended two lectures at the City Literary Institute in central London which took a 50th anniversary look at some of the events worldwide in 1968 when I was a 20 year old university student. Those events included the Vietnam War (especially the Tet Offensive), the assassination of Martin Luther King &amp; Robert F [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23355,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23338\/revisions\/23355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}