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Homelands Historical Context

Events that could have influenced Homelands

 2000:

  • Marks and Spencers launches it's "I'm Normal" campaign, featuring a naked size 16 woman. This generates a lot of media coverage
  • Nigella Lawson publishes "How to be a Domestic Goddess" following the success of her TV show "Nigella Bites"
  • New Labour's Human Rights Act comes into force
  • George W Bush wins US Presidential Election
2001
  • George Bush refuses to endorse the Kyoto Protocol 
  • Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon kills almost 3000 people
  • Invasion of Afghanistan - the war on terror begins
  • President George Bush signs executive order stating that the US Military can detain any non citizens who are thought to be taking part in terrorism 
2002
  • The first group of 20 prisoners arrives at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
2003
  • The Iraq war began in this year
2004
  • Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg
  • A series of coordinated bombs on a commuter train kills 191 and wounds more than 1800 just three days before Spain's general election
  • George W Bush wins a second term with an increased majority
2005
  • YouTube is launched in this year
  • London bombings on three underground trains and a bus kills 56 people
  • Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, causing major flooding and killing nearly 2000 people
2006
  • Twitter is launched
  • Sudan Hussein was executed in this year
2007
  • Celebrity Big Brother racism row erupts, causing major controversy 
  • Apple releases the iPhone
  • Saffron Revolution in Burma

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