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I recently came across the record of a debate in the House of Lords on 18 December 1986 that took...
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Woke up in the middle of the night recently and realised I'd been dreaming about a sweet shop that used...
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Back in 1979, we gritted our teeth as Thatcher won that year's general election. This was a seismic political shift...
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On a Facebook page for my old school, somebody posted a picture of one side of the old school gym....
1980 is often seen as the high point of the late 70s skinhead revival and there were plenty of Irish...
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Veteran screenwriter Russell T Davies has just penned a new TV drama - It's a Sin - that takes us...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSf2kfpkKMg Mary Whitehouse was a socially conservative campaigner who tried to ban what she deemed to be immoral content on...
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From memory, my first pocket calculator was given to me by Dad around 1977. Like the first mobile phones, it...
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When some of your earliest memories are watching the Apollo rockets launching into space and astronauts walking on the moon...
An advert from 1983 - the late Telly Savalas advertising Bacardi Rum. Best known for his starring role as the...
