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1979 Southall – a riot and its consequences

The 70s 80s 90s Blog1 year ago1 year ago124 mins

1979 saw tensions fuelled by extreme Right activity reach breaking point in Southall as a riot broke out. Tony McMahon looks back.

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What motivated skinhead attacks in the 70s?

The 70s 80s 90s Blog1 year ago1 year ago121 mins

The late 1970s saw a wave of attacks on LGBT people and ethnic minorities by young thugs of identifying as skinhead so what was the motive? Tony McMahon investigates.

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1982 – looking back after forty years!

The 70s 80s 90s Blog1 year ago1 year ago111 mins

1982 was a stormy year that saw the Falkands War, mass unemployment and a scandal involving the Queen’s bodyguard

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Financial scandals that crashed Thatcherism

The 70s 80s 90s Blog2 years ago2 years ago010 mins

A series of financial scandals marked the end of Thatcherism as Tony McMahon remembers having been a financial journalist back then

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The turbulent Labour Party of the 1980s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog2 years ago2 years ago411 mins

The Labour Party in the 1980s saw a stormy civil war that ended in purges as Tony McMahon remembers from a misspent youth

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It’s a Sin – LGBT in the Thatcher era

The 70s 80s 90s Blog2 years ago2 years ago011 mins

The Russell T Davies series It’s a Sin shows what it was like to be young and gay in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher and with AIDS

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LGBT woes in the early 1980s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

LGBT people faced discrimination, the AIDS virus and homophobic legislation from the Thatcher government in the 1980s as Tony McMahon reports

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Labour MPs leaving in 2019 – and 1981

The 70s 80s 90s Blog4 years ago3 years ago09 mins

The departure of the Gang of Four from the Labour Party to form the SDP in 1981 was a big event unlike the exodus of MPs in 2019 such as Chuka Umunna

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Grim times for LGBT people in the 1980s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog5 years ago3 years ago06 mins

Margaret Thatcher is sometimes presented as a gay icon, but in the 1980s she led an onslaught on LGBT rights at the height of the HIV crisis

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The Miners Strike and my student union year

The 70s 80s 90s Blog5 years ago3 years ago06 mins

In the academic year 1984-85, I was Deputy President of Liverpool University student union during the miners strike of that year

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