Memories of Liverpool in 1981 – part three
The media faced a huge challenge covering the 1981 riots but ENG technology was revolutionising TV news as Tony McMahon discovers
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Memories of Liverpool in 1981 – part two
In these blog posts, I’m casting my mind back to my first year at university in Liverpool. I arrived in the aftermath of the Toxteth riots and a city in ferment. Can’t deny it was very exciting. But it was also a time of massive poverty and sky-high rates of unemployment as well as shocking…
Memories of Liverpool in 1981 – part one
Tony McMahon recalls how he arrived as a student in Liverpool in 1981 after a summer of riots had devastated Toxteth
1982 – looking back after forty years!
1982 was a stormy year that saw the Falkands War, mass unemployment and a scandal involving the Queen’s bodyguard
The menace of British fascism in the 1970s
British fascism experienced a surge in the 1970s led in the main by the National Front
Boomer youth unemployment in the 1980s
Young Boomers in the 1980s weren’t all rich and privileged – millions were out of work and in poverty, as Tony McMahon discovers
Worst financial scandals of the 1990s – the truth uncovered
A series of financial scandals marked the end of Thatcherism as Tony McMahon remembers having been a financial journalist back then
Labour Party battles of the 1980s that created Keir Starmer
The Labour Party in the 1980s saw a stormy civil war that ended in purges as Tony McMahon remembers from a misspent youth
Celebrity supporters of Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher had some prominent celebrity supporters in the early 1980s as Tony McMahon discovers in the archives
School gym horror in the 1970s
In the 1970s, the school gym was a torture chamber as TV historian Tony McMahon recalls less than fondly from his time at grammar school