Memories of Liverpool in 1981 – part five
To what extent did poor relations between the community in Toxteth and the Merseyside police lead to the 1981 riots? Tony McMahon reports
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Memories of Liverpool in 1981 – part four
Liverpool had seen massive riots in 1981 and now Prime Minister Thatcher and the establishment needed to react as Tony McMahon discovers
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
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
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
It’s a Sin – LGBT in the Thatcher era
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
Comparing the riots of 1981, 2001 and 2011
2021 will be the fourtieth anniversary of the 1981 riots and the tenth anniverary of the 2011 riots so what lessons have been learned?
4-Skins gig in Southall ends in 1981 riot
The 1981 Southall riot saw a clash between the Oi! skinhead subculture and local Asian youth in a district of London that was part of a summer of riots
Inflation and unemployment under Thatcher
Both unemployment and inflation soared in the first two years of the Thatcher government though the Tories were open to a rise in the jobless figures