February 2013

Tories and racism in the 1970s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago4 years ago16 mins

What did people around Thatcher think about race relations?

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago4 years ago09 mins

In recent years, Thatcher has been lauded as a feminist icon – an idea that would have been laughed at in the 1980s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago4 years ago115 mins

The movie Back to the Future featured a DeLorean car but behind that story was a real-life scandal in Northern Ireland as Tony McMahon discovers

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago4 years ago14 mins

Margaret Thatcher was a rich source of satire in the 1980s from cartoonists to TV programme makers as Tony McMahon recalls

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago3 years ago413 mins

The Northern Ireland troubles reached a fever pitch in 1979 with the assassinations of Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago3 years ago03 mins

The Jeremy Thorpe scandal rocked British politics in the late 1970s and nearly destroyed the Liberal Party that he led