Picture Past: A trip back to 1972

Click through some of our most evocative pictures from 46 years ago.
Putting a happy face on the fuel crisis is 61-year-old coalman Arthur Tate  loading bags of smokeless fuel at the British Fuel Supply Depot in Armey, Leeds, in 1972.Putting a happy face on the fuel crisis is 61-year-old coalman Arthur Tate  loading bags of smokeless fuel at the British Fuel Supply Depot in Armey, Leeds, in 1972.
Putting a happy face on the fuel crisis is 61-year-old coalman Arthur Tate loading bags of smokeless fuel at the British Fuel Supply Depot in Armey, Leeds, in 1972.

An era of political unrest, high quality rock music and long hair.