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1973
 
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Prime minister Edward Heath takes Britain into the European Community, on the third attempt       
1973
 
    
British economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher publishes an influential economic tract, Small is Beautiful       
1973
 
    
The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis       
1973
 
    
Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers       
1974
 
     
Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon        
1974
 
     
British physicist Stephen Hawking describes how black holes can emit radiation, a process now known as 'Hawking radiation'        
1974
 
   
Former prime minister Harold Wilson returns to Downing Street as leader of a minority government, but wins a second general election later in the year      
1974
 
    
German-born British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner completes his monumental 46-volume Buildings of England       
1974
 
     
Kenneth MacMillan uses Scott Joplin as his score for a ragtime ballet, Elite Syncopations        
1974
 
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The SNP achieves a surge in Scottish nationalism, winning eleven seats at Westminster on 30% of the Scottish vote