By Katherine Tsai

At 7 p.m. on March 14th, Mr. Gerard Brent held a lecture entitled " Observations of British Life from 1960 to 1990" in Lize D201，which was the first lecture of the School of Foreign Languages this semester.

Mr. Gerard Brent started his lecture with the background to the 1960s in England. At that time, British were stepping out of the shadow of the Second World War and into the tough but peaceful life. In terms of technology, the monochrome television and the radio were just as popular as the modern TV. At that time, Nobody had a smart phone like now,while red telephone boxes coule be seen every 200 meters,which still plays an important role in today’s British culture. Besides, Mr. Gerard Brent also showed some big events which happened in Britain, such as the great mail train robbery, first supermarket and popularization of the band, Beatles, from Liverpool among teenagers.

In the 1970s, the workers'' strikes and the strive for equal pay for women were remarkable. And then, the 1980s, Mr. Gerard Brent said, was the decade of British Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher. And the England inevitably became the focus of the world because of the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, as well as the war with Argentina.When it came to the 1990s, Internet took off and changed England a lot.

Ultimately, Mr. Gerard Brent had a closer communication with students, and the lecture came to the end.