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Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
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80s popstar draws himself Dave Wakeling was front man of ska combo The Beat alongside the late and great Ranking...
1979 and 1980 were the glory years of the so-called "second wave" of ska music - first wave in Jamaica...
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As all fans of the Back to the Future movie franchise know - the characters time-travelled in a DMC DeLorean...
Northern Ireland had been riven with sectarian conflicts between Catholics and Protestants since the province was carved out of the...
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In 1981, the miners won - but not in 1985 The Lady was not for Turning - except when it...
In the autumn of 1978, I remember the Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan - "Sunny Jim" as he was dubbed...
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The UK's first gay skinhead disco back in the 1980s was gleefully anticipated by hundreds of.....gay skinheads. They'd booked the...
I wrote two biographies set in Coventry that exposed the racism and violence in that city back in the 1980s...
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, judges and magistrates often made comments in court cases that we would regard as...
