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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVW1T-BIhfg The Toxteth riot in July 1981 followed a riot in Southall the night before and preceded the Moss Side...
Year: 2012
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In 1981, when riots consumed Liverpool, the reds were in seventh heaven as Liverpool FC swept aside Bayern Munich to...
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Quite a few left wing firebrands from the 1970s and 1980s have now been forgotten. Who can remember Red Robbo,...
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The first term of the Thatcher-led Conservative government that took power in 1979 saw the Tories battle with many opponents....
Over the first six months of 1980, a total of 3,160 firms called in the receivers. If you look at...
During the 1981 riots, some sections of the media and politicians pointed an accusing finger at alleged left-wing agitators as...
I recently unearthed a poem by a miner's wife in my archive - dating from the 1984/85 miners strike. Poem...
I wrote two biographies set in Coventry that exposed the racism and violence in that city back in the 1980s...
