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The menace of British fascism in the 1970s

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British fascism experienced a surge in the 1970s led in the main by the National Front

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Young Boomers in the 1980s weren’t all rich and privileged – millions were out of work and in poverty, as Tony McMahon discovers

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A series of financial scandals marked the end of Thatcherism as Tony McMahon remembers having been a financial journalist back then

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The Labour Party in the 1980s saw a stormy civil war that ended in purges as Tony McMahon remembers from a misspent youth

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Margaret Thatcher had some prominent celebrity supporters in the early 1980s as Tony McMahon discovers in the archives

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In the 1970s, the school gym was a torture chamber as TV historian Tony McMahon recalls less than fondly from his time at grammar school

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1980 was a the high point for the whole late 1970s revival of skinheads and there were Irish boot boys and girls around too

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The Russell T Davies series It’s a Sin shows what it was like to be young and gay in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher and with AIDS