Celebrity supporters of Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher had some prominent celebrity supporters in the early 1980s as Tony McMahon discovers in the archives
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Grim times for LGBT people in the 1980s
Margaret Thatcher is sometimes presented as a gay icon, but in the 1980s she led an onslaught on LGBT rights at the height of the HIV crisis
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
Thatcher purges moderates in 1983
In 1983, Thatcher emerged triumphant from a general election and set about a purge of moderates from her cabinet as Tony McMahon reports
Riot police armed with dustbin lids
As the level of civil disturbances rose in the 1970s riot police complained of only having dustbin lids and traffic cones for protection
Labour PM Callaghan loses to Thatcher
1979 saw Tory leader Margaret Thatcher defeat Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan in a stormy general election as Tony McMahon remembers
1981 riots blamed on left-wing agitators
During the 1981 riots there were attempts by the media and politicians to blame left-wing agitators for the violence that erupted in UK cities
Terry Dicks – an 80s Tory politician
Terry Dicks was a Conservative politician active from the 1970s to 1990s who took far right positions on immigration, LGBT rights and other issues