Between 1955 and 1962, between 19 % to 33 % of people in Britain expressed disapproval of the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

The Surf Life Saving Great Britain ( SLSGB ) organisation was formed in 1955.

Gilmour famously lent The Spectator ’ s voice to the campaign to end capital punishment in Britain, writing an incensed leader attacking the hanging of Ruth Ellis in 1955, in which he claimed " Hanging has become the national sport ", and that the home secretary Gwilym Lloyd George, for not reprieving the sentence, " has now been responsible for the hanging of two women over the past eight months ".

The breed was developed in Britain from a selection of Van cats obtained from Eastern Turkey in 1955.

* Requiem for a Wren ( 1955 ; U. S. title: The Breaking Wave ): The story of a young British woman who, plagued with guilt after shooting down a plane carrying Polish refugees in World War II, moves to Australia to work anonymously for the parents of her ( now deceased ) Australian lover, whilst the lover's brother searches for her in Britain.

He was a founding board member and also served as Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1955 to 1960, and had a major role in the art programme of the Festival of Britain.

( 1955 ) Roman roads in Britain: Vol. 1, South of the Foss Way-Bristol Channel, 1st Ed., London: Phoenix House, 255 p.

Bradford Perkins argued in 1955 that the treaty was the first to establish a special relationship between Britain and the United States, with a second installment under Lord Salisbury.

He appeared in the 1955 BBC Television serial Quatermass II, had a role in the Powell and Pressburger wartime drama Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), and came to wide popular attention in Britain when he played the duplicitous Spanish envoy Mendoza in the ITC Entertainment series Sir Francis Drake ( 1961 – 62 ), after which he was much in demand ; an ' in-joke ' in the 1971 Doctor Who story Colony in Space refers to that role: the Brigadier tells the Doctor not to worry — the suspected sighting of the Master was only the Spanish Ambassador!

* In 1955 in Britain Wooler produced a small number of 500 cc flat opposed fours with shaft drive.

During his tenure, the YMCA celebrated its centennial in 1955, and Limbert visited many YMCAs in over 60 nations, including Britain, France, and in Africa.

Dunayevskaya and her supporters eventually formed the News and Letters Committees in 1955 after splitting with CLR James, who was deported from the USA to Britain from where he continued to advise the Correspondence Publishing Committee, which split again in 1962, with those loyal to CLR James taking the name Facing Reality.

In 1932 Britain overtook France to become Europe's largest car producer ( a position which it retained until 1955 ).

In the 1950s, there were mergers with the Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association ( founded in 1893 in Tabor, Iowa ) in 1950 ; the International Holiness Mission ( founded in London in 1907 by David Thomas ) merged on 29 October 1952 ; the Calvary Holiness Church ( founded in Britain 1934 by Maynard James and Jack Ford ), united on June 11, 1955 ; and the Gospel Workers Church of Canada ( founded in Ontario in 1918 ) became part of the Church of the Nazarene on 7 September 1958.

The three Ts morphed from an anchor, reflecting the nautical influence of the station's name. Independent television was introduced to Britain in September 1955.

* 1955, 12 July: Ruth Ellis, aged 28, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

While the article was little more than a rehash of views expressed in a 1955 article " Royal Soap Opera ", its timing caused outrage back in Britain, and he was sacked for a short period from the BBC, and a contract with Beaverbrook newspapers was cancelled.

The Party lost the 1955 elections to Labour and the following years it led the campaign against the Labour Government's proposal for Integration with Britain.

* The Geneva Summit of 1955, where " The Big Four " – President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France – discussed global security

At noon on May 6, 1955, Conant, along with the high commissioners from Britain and France, signed the documents ending Allied control of West Germany, admitting it to NATO, and allowing it re-arm.

* Ruth Ellis – The last woman to be hanged in Britain in 1955.

Other versions of the television show have also been made in Britain from 1955, as well as in Australia, in New Zealand and in Sweden.

Sculpture in Britain: The Middle Ages, 1955, Penguin Books ( now Yale History of Art )

The next citations are not found until 1955, when the May – June issue of Aviation Mechanics Bulletin included the line " Murphy's Law: If an aircraft part can be installed incorrectly, someone will install it that way ," and Lloyd Mallan's book, Men, Rockets and Space Rats, referred to: " Colonel Stapp's favorite takeoff on sober scientific laws — Murphy's Law, Stapp calls it —' Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong '.

* J. von Neumann, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press, 1955.

The Silkworm was developed at the Institute of Mechanics under Qian Xuesen, a Chinese scientist who did his graduate studies at MIT and Caltech, before being deported by the United States in 1955 after being suspected of Communist ties.

" Popular Mechanics, February 1955, pp. 169-173, the basics in simple terms with drawings.

* J. von Neumann, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press, 1955.

In 1958, while still in Singapore, Parkinson published his most famous work Parkinson's Law, a book that expanded upon a humorous article that he had first published in the Economist magazine in November 1955, satirizing government bureaucracies.

After it was rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955, Hefner agreed to publish in Playboy the Charles Beaumont science fiction short story, " The Crooked Man ", about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm.

With issue 24 ( July 1955 ), Mad switched to a magazine format.

To retain Kurtzman as its editor, the comic book converted to magazine format as of issue # 24 ( 1955 ).

Already in 1955 he started writing for the Casabella magazine, where he became editor between 1959 – 1964.

Good Housekeeping magazine became the sponsor for the 1954-55 season, and a short third season in the autumn of 1955 finished the run.

In the spring of 1955, Asimov published an early timeline in the pages of Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine based upon his thought processes concerning the Foundation universe's history at that point in his life, which vastly differs from its modern-era counterpart.

Although graduates recall the school being viewed as blue-collar and academically inferior to Male High School in its early days, numerous early graduates went on to become medical doctors, and students published a literary magazine called The Crimson from 1899 to 1955.

il doppio segreto di Macchia Nera, written by Guido Martina and drawn by Romano Scarpa, published in 1955 in issues 116-119 of Topolino, the main Italian Disney magazine.

In 1955, Terre Haute was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag.

Gaines converted Mad to a magazine in 1955, partly to retain the services of its talented editor Harvey Kurtzman, who had received offers from elsewhere.

In 1955, following a contractual dispute with his publisher Dupuis, Franquin went for a short stint at Tintin, the rival magazine.

It was first serialized in Astounding magazine from 1955 to 1956, then reworked and published as a book in 1956.

National Review ( NR ) is a fortnightly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City.

On November 19, 1955, Buckley ’ s magazine would take shape.

He wrote a Tamil re-telling of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana which appeared as a serial in the Tamil magazine Kalki from May 23, 1954 to November 6, 1955.

The Journal of Irreproducible Results ( JIR ) was founded by Alex Kohn and Harry Lipkin in 1955, but most of its editorial staff, including editor Marc Abrahams, left after the magazine was bought by publisher George Scherr in 1994.

In 1955, Business Week magazine ran an article titled " New England Highway Upsets Old Way of Life " and referred to Route 128 as " the Magic Semicircle ".

Buckley went on to found the National Review in 1955 as a weekly magazine that helped define the conservative position on public issues.

He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement.

From 1951 to 1955, he published another literary magazine, which he called Ern Malley's Journal.

Walter Scott Story ( June 23, 1879-June 23, 1955 ) was an author of children's books and over 140 pulp magazine stories and novelettes.

Partly because of her geographical isolation, even magazine publication was not easily available and in 1955 she claimed that she had published work only six times in the previous ten years.

* Highways in Hiding ( magazine publication 1955, book publication 1956, abridged as Space Plague in 1957 )