conference Archives

The turbulent Labour Party of the 1980s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog5 years ago5 years ago411 mins

The Labour Party in the 1980s saw a stormy civil war that ended in purges as Tony McMahon remembers from a misspent youth

The 70s 80s 90s Blog5 years ago3 years ago03 mins

Margaret Thatcher had some prominent celebrity supporters in the early 1980s as Tony McMahon discovers in the archives

The 70s 80s 90s Blog9 years ago5 years ago17 mins

NOLS and the LPYS were the two youth wings of the Labour Party in the 1970s and 1980s and they couldn’t have been more different

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Thatcher attempts Monty Python – painful

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago5 years ago04 mins

At the 1980 Conservative Party conference Margaret Thatcher declared that the lady was not for turning but turn she did on economic policy