National Front targets 1970s school kids
From the late 1970s, extreme Right groups like the National Front and British Movement tried to recruit in school playgrounds
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1970s National Front manifesto is grim reading
A 1970s manifesto from the National Front shows how far mainstream political parties today have drifted to the right with many policies now echoed by them
Misery of unemployment in the 1980s
As mass unemployment returns after Covid, Tony McMahon looks back at unemployment in the 1980s which scaled horrific heights
Political badges from the 1980s
My collection of political badges from the 1980s shows the causes we cared about from racism to nuclear disarmament and freedom for the people of Chile
David Bowie – it wasn’t always adulation
David Bowie – it wasn’t always adulation. Critics of Bowie could often be very harsh and bitter.
Northern Ireland in 1979
The Northern Ireland troubles reached a fever pitch in 1979 with the assassinations of Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten
The Jeremy Thorpe scandal
The Jeremy Thorpe scandal rocked British politics in the late 1970s and nearly destroyed the Liberal Party that he led
Ken Livingstone versus Sir Horace Cutler
The Greater London Council in the late 1970s and early 1980s saw Tory leader Sir Horace Cutler fighting Labour’s Ken Livingstone
Prince Edward hot and Donny Osmond not – a view from 1981
Prince Edward hot and Donny Osmond not – a view from 1981
The last years of the Greater London Council and the battle with Thatcher
The last years of the Greater London Council and the battle with Thatcher