New technology in 1983 involved text services on TV, the latest in computers and the first stab at selfie photo...
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After a year at Liverpool University, the student paper said I should make up my mind whether I was a...
Updating this post in July 2020, I'm now looking at history repeating on mass unemployment. Seemingly every day, the TV...
For somebody who seemed to have a petit-bourgeois philistine contempt for the arts - Thatcher certainly inspired many artists. Mainly...
This I found in my archives and it made me chuckle. A pop annual in 1981 decided to pronounce on...
Three magazines from my huge archive of 80s stuff - Record Mirror featuring Blondie, My Guy with Steve Strange and...
These were blu-tacked to my bedroom wall when I was a student - found them yesterday languishing at the bottom...
When I was a kid in the 70s, my Dad would take my sister and I down to Petticoat Lane...
The lives of working class black families were a terra incognita for most white British three decades ago. So it...