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| 1976 |
| | | Britain's new National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun, opens on the South Bank in London, | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Liverpool football player Kevin Keegan begins six years as captain of England | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Kenneth MacMillan turns a double suicide of 1889 into a ferociously dramatic ballet, Mayerling | |
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| 1978 |
| | | John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey, with Leo McKern in the title role, begins its first series of six episodes on British TV | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea, and wins the 1978 Booker Prize | |
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| 1978 |
| | | English author Andrew Motion publishes his first collection of poems, The Pleasure Steamers | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Douglas Adams creates Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a science fiction comedy series for BBC's Radio 4 | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Czech-born US tennis player Martina Navratilova wins the first of nine singles titles at Wimbledon | |
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| 1978 |
| | | English cricketer Ian Botham sets a new Test record, scoring a century and taking eight wickets against Pakistan at Lord's | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Louise Brown, born in England, is the first test-tube baby, having been conceived by IVF (In vitro fertilization) | |
|  | Collecting eggs for IVF
Wellcome Library, London
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