It was the year the Beatles were given MBE honours and released the albums Help! and Rubber Soul. 1965 also saw the abolition of the death penalty and the prison break of Ronnie Biggs, known as The Great Train Robber.
Closer to home in Hull and the East Riding, you can peer back into 1965 in our nostalgic photographs. It was a fairly turbulent time for workers and there was a demonstration at the University of Hull on October 12, 1965, over pay.
East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) crews went on strike earlier in the year. Former passengers may recall standing in the old bus station, shivering as the wind whipped through it
This was also the year Sir Winston Churchill died at the age of 90. One of our archive photographs shows a scene from Richard Dunston’s Hessle shipyard in November, 1965, as workers battle to right the schooner Sir Winston Churchill, named in his honour.
Disaster struck when she toppled onto her starboard side while being fitted out, breaking three masts. The accident happened a week before she was due to be launched by Princess Alexandra.
In our photographs, including scenes captured in Hedon and Beverley, you will notice many men wearing suits. At the time, it was seen as aspirational.
And who remembers being at school in the 1960s with those hinged wooden desks? Peer into the archives in the gallery of images below – you might unearth some familiar memories.