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
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Peter Tatchell runs for Labour in 1983
In 1983 Peter Tatchell ran as the Labour candidate in the Bermondsey by-election facing a barrage of homophobia
David Bowie – it wasn’t always adulation
David Bowie – it wasn’t always adulation. Critics of Bowie could often be very harsh and bitter.
Marxist humour in the 80s – an advert for the Eurocommunist magazine Marxism Today
Marxist humour in the 80s – an advert for the Eurocommunist magazine Marxism Today
Thatcher was not a feminist
In recent years, Thatcher has been lauded as a feminist icon – an idea that would have been laughed at in the 1980s
Thatcher inspired satire in the 1980s
Margaret Thatcher was a rich source of satire in the 1980s from cartoonists to TV programme makers as Tony McMahon recalls
Northern Ireland in 1979
The Northern Ireland troubles reached a fever pitch in 1979 with the assassinations of Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten
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