James Callaghan heckled by Pat Arrowsmith
Jim Callaghan heckled during his 1979 election speech
Riot police armed with dustbin lids
As the level of civil disturbances rose in the 1970s riot police complained of only having dustbin lids and traffic cones for protection
Marxist humour in the 80s – an advert for the Eurocommunist magazine Marxism Today
Marxist humour in the 80s – an advert for the Eurocommunist magazine Marxism Today
Tories and racism in the 1970s
What did people around Thatcher think about race relations?
Thatcher was not a feminist
In recent years, Thatcher has been lauded as a feminist icon – an idea that would have been laughed at in the 1980s
Back to the Future with De Lorean
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
Thatcher inspired satire in the 1980s
Margaret Thatcher was a rich source of satire in the 1980s from cartoonists to TV programme makers as Tony McMahon recalls
Northern Ireland in 1979
The Northern Ireland troubles reached a fever pitch in 1979 with the assassinations of Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten
The Jeremy Thorpe scandal
The Jeremy Thorpe scandal rocked British politics in the late 1970s and nearly destroyed the Liberal Party that he led