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Plenty of people know about planes being hijacked by terrorist groups in the 1970s but few remember the spate of...
The 70s 80s 90s Blog
TV historian Tony McMahon takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the politics, history, and culture of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. A period of history he knows well having grown up in it and been politically very active as well as a big fan of many rock and pop groups. He has also written two well-received biographies of Neville Staple, lead singer in The Specials and Errol Christie, a pioneering black British boxer of the 1970s and 1980s.
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In 1972, a Palestinian terrorist group - Black September - infiltrated the Olympic village at the Munich Summer Olympics killing...
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The 1970s 1980s, and 1990s saw some terrifying brainwashing cults emerge resulting in mass murder and suicide. In November 1978,...
In the 1980s, capitalism was unleashed to its full. For some, this meant the first opportunity ever to make (and...
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When the police drama Kojak aired on the CBS TV channel in 1973, critics and audiences knew this was a...
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In the 1970s, the struggle for women's liberation - referred to as "Women's Lib" - erupted to the surface. News...
In the mid-1970s, British TV viewers tuned in for a weekly fix of murder and intrigue such as had never...
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This week, Margaret Thatcher's long-running Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson died aged 91 - an iconic figure of the...
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There was a point in the mid-1990s when the public began to wonder if the tsunami of British political scandals...
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Recently watched a 1983 report on racism in Liverpool clubs in the 1980s. Two groups of youth - one white...
