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One of the first measures introduced by the new Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was the so-called 'short,...
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Plenty of people know about planes being hijacked by terrorist groups in the 1970s but few remember the spate of...
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First heard the expression town and gown when I visited friends at Cambridge University in the 1980s. There was, shall...
Back in 1979, the lawless and only recently financially bankrupt city of New York spawned a group of vigilante do-gooders...
