Nearly forty years ago, a police officer was hacked to death during a night of violence in north London. Police...
80s
On December 6, 1989, Doctor Who as a TV series (there were movie spin-offs) came to an end after a...
1985 was a thrilling year for Cold War spies with two double agents dominating the headlines. One was a high...
It's hard to believe but a whole swathe of the British population, still very much alive today, was legally beaten...
Being told to stand still. The lights going up. The police entering in large numbers. Frisking. Individuals led away. Court...
I ended the 1980s in Bellshill - just outside Glasgow having spent Christmas in Geneva, Switzerland. A winter holiday season...
Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
One of the first measures introduced by the new Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was the so-called 'short,...
Today, Tamworth is a market town in Staffordshire with an old castle and an indoor snow dome. It's also famous...
The 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom allowed women to legally terminate a pregnancy on the National Health Service....