Labour Party youth wings: NOLS and LPYS
NOLS and the LPYS were the two youth wings of the Labour Party in the 1970s and 1980s and they couldn’t have been more different
March 2017
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Amazing pop music in 1980s Liverpool
The great sound of 1980s Liverpool music was celebrated in the first half of the 80s at a festival called Larks in the Park in Sefton Park
Miners Strike posters from my archives
Miners Strike posters and papers from my 80s archives
Miners produce their own version of The Sun and News of the World
During the 1984/85 miners strike, the tabloid newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch – The Sun and the News of the World – took a very hostile stance towards the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Murdoch was about to take on his own print unions so organised labour was in his sights. The Sun put the…
Travelling back to 1980s Liverpool clubs
The 1980s Liverpool club scene was an amazingly vibrant and fun affair with clubs like Cagneys and the Mardi Gras as well as The Raz and The Caz
Ronnie Reagan – full of Xmas cheer
Wearing a CND badge – a leftie Christmas card I received around 1981.
WH Smith goes ska in 1980
1979 and 1980 were the glory years of the so-called “second wave” of ska music – first wave in Jamaica twenty plus years before and now the 2Tone wave came crashing out of Coventry. The Specials seized the charts by the scruff of the neck with a string of hits. And even WH Smith felt…