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Two plastic balls linked by a skinny rope caused the most ridiculous moral panic at at the start of the...
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On December 6, 1989, Doctor Who as a TV series (there were movie spin-offs) came to an end after a...
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1985 was a thrilling year for Cold War spies with two double agents dominating the headlines. One was a high...
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It's hard to believe but a whole swathe of the British population, still very much alive today, was legally beaten...
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Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
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Today, Tamworth is a market town in Staffordshire with an old castle and an indoor snow dome. It's also famous...
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The 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom allowed women to legally terminate a pregnancy on the National Health Service....
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Plenty of people know about planes being hijacked by terrorist groups in the 1970s but few remember the spate of...
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The 1970s 1980s, and 1990s saw some terrifying brainwashing cults emerge resulting in mass murder and suicide. In November 1978,...
In the 1980s, capitalism was unleashed to its full. For some, this meant the first opportunity ever to make (and...
