* 1977 – Members of the British National Front ( NF ) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.

* Adrian Turner ( born 1977 ), British Olympic swimmer

* 1977 – Aiden Turner, British actor

In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.

* The British Right: Conservative and right wing politics in Britain / Neill Nugent., 1977

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

* 1977 – Sascha Kindred, British Paralympic swimmer

* 1977 – Darren Bennett, British professional ballroom dancer

* 1977 – Anthony Crosland, British politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1977 – Ben Ainslie, British sailor

* 1977 – Chrissie Wellington, British tri-athlete

In 1977, Hayek was critical of the Lib-Lab pact, in which the British Liberal Party agreed to keep the British Labour government in office.

Ludwig Erhard ( 1897 – 1977 ) was in charge of economic policy as economics director for the British and American occupation zones and was Adenauer's long-time economics minister.

* Hardcore ( 1977 film ), a British comedy film

* 1977 – Michelle Behennah, British model

* 1897 – Dennis Wheatley, British author ( d. 1977 )

* 1904 – Richard Addinsell, British composer ( Warsaw Concerto ) ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – William Ash ( actor ), British actor

* John Walker ( journalist ) ( born 1977 ), British video game journalist

In 1977, Liverpool manager Bob Paisley paid a British transfer record of £ 440, 000 to bring Dalglish to Liverpool.

On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.

* Philby, Burgess and MacLean – Spy Scandal of the Century, a BBC drama produced for TV in 1977, covers the period of the late 1940s, when British intelligence investigated Kim Philby's colleague Donald Maclean until 1955 when the British government cleared Philby because it did not have enough evidence to convict him.

They were awarded an Ivor Novello Award for " Outstanding Contribution to British Music " in 1977, as well as a " Lifetime Achievement Award " at the 42nd Annual Ivor Novello awards ceremony in 1997.

" This much-acclaimed effort was followed by the " Renaissance II " project, begun in 1977 and focusing more on cultural and neighborhood development than its predecessor.

Viola was invited to show work at La Trobe University ( Melbourne, Australia ) in 1977, by cultural arts director Kira Perov.

Although in 1977 cultural anthropologist Jules de Leeuwe argued that some societies were " mainly gynecocratic " ( others being " mainly androcratic "), he did not identify any in his short response.

When the cultural exchange program Friendship Force International launched at the White House on March 1, 1977, she became honorary chairperson, a position she held until 2002.

This does not mean that the ' spiritual ' theory of race is acceptable, but it had at least the merit of not totally failing to see certain values, to refuse the German aberrations and the ones modeled after them and to try to keep racism on a plane of cultural problems worthy of the name " ( Storia degli Ebrei Italiani sotto il Fascismo, or The History of Italian Jews under Fascism 1977 ; 465 ).

* Spiking the cultural roots, Tim Radford, The Guardian, 1 April 1977

A significant international visit was made in 1977 when they were sent to mainland China as a cultural exchange between Canada and China.

1977 saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became a major international cultural phenomenon.

There were “ foundational works underlying and facilitating the turn to cultural forms of analysis ;” they were: Hayden White ’ s Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe ( 1973 ), Clifford Geertz ’ s The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays ( 1973 ), Michel Foucault ’ s Discipline and Punish ( 1977 ), and Pierre Bourdieu ’ s Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ).

The " cultural dialog ", initiated in 1977 by the de facto government but organized by UNESCO, was held in her home, Villa Ocampo, in San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province ; she eventually donated the house to UNESCO.

In 1977, the Seoul International Song Festival was launched, which encouraged cultural exchanges with other countries.

Walid's father, Kamal Jumblatt, a major political, cultural, and philosophical figure in the Arab World, and a prominent Arab nationalist, was assassinated in 1977 in the Lebanese mountains.

On May 3, 1977, he was awarded the title of Merited Artist, and in the following year received the Golden Hat of Cologne, given yearly to a personality in the cultural and social sphere.

By 1977, between 100, 000 and 200, 000 had moved to San Francisco from all over the United States, changing the political and cultural profile of the city.

As Bourdieu ( 1977 ) maintains, the effect of symbolic violence such as host cultural coercion, the catalyst for " positive " cross-cultural adaptation according to Gudykunst and Kim ( 2003 ), results in the personal disintegration of the minority person's psyche.

1977 saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became a major international cultural phenomenon.

Employed at a local cultural center after 1977, he soon won recognition as an outspoken new literary talent.

The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots ( 1977 ), led to a cultural sensation in the United States.

Formerly the " Miner's Institute " ( Plas Mwynwyr ), which was built in 1926 and dominated the social and cultural life of the village ( citation ) until 1977 when it closed.

His book Public Relations ( 1977 ) shows press conferences with deer-in-the-headlight writers and politicians, protesters beaten by cops, and museum parties frequented by the self-satisfied cultural glitterati.

Louis Pauwels, former director of the fantastic realist magazine Planète, entered in September 1977 the cultural services of Le Figaro, and became in October 1978 the director of the newly created weekly Le Figaro Magazine.

Maps, which is set during the Ogaden conflict of 1977, employs the innovative technique of second-person narration for exploring questions of cultural identity in a post-independence world.

Seracini, who heads Editech, a Florence-based company he founded in 1977 focused on the “ diagnostics of cultural heritage ", used high-resolution digital scans as well as thermographic, ultra sound, ultra-violet and infra-red diagnostic techniques to conclude that the painting could not be restored without damaging it and that Leonardo only did the underdrawing.