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Dave Wakeling of The Beat draws himself

The 70s 80s 90s Blog3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

Dave Wakeling was the front man of the British ska combo The Beat and here is a self-portrait he penned when the band was at the height of its fame

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WH Smith goes ska in 1980

The 70s 80s 90s Blog6 years ago6 years ago01 mins

1979 and 1980 were the glory years of the so-called “second wave” of ska music – first wave in Jamaica twenty plus years before and now the 2Tone wave came crashing out of Coventry. The Specials seized the charts by the scruff of the neck with a string of hits. And even WH Smith felt…

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Back to the Future with De Lorean

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago11 months ago115 mins

The movie Back to the Future featured a DeLorean car but behind that story was a real-life scandal in Northern Ireland as Tony McMahon discovers

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Northern Ireland in 1979

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago2 months ago413 mins

The Northern Ireland troubles reached a fever pitch in 1979 with the assassinations of Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten

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When Thatcher caved in to the miners

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago11 months ago09 mins

In 1981, Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caved into the miners but was simply biding her time for a future showdown

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Labour PM Callaghan loses to Thatcher

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago2 months ago213 mins

1979 saw Tory leader Margaret Thatcher defeat Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan in a stormy general election as Tony McMahon remembers

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1980s Skinhead Gays – a complicated story

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago11 months ago018 mins

The 1980s gay skinhead scene involved both an element of cosplay but also some individuals who were neo-Nazis and LGBT

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Racism in 1980s Coventry night clubs

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago1 year ago05 mins

Night clubs still operating a race bar in the 70s and 80s

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Bigoted judges in the 1970s and 1980s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago11 months ago213 mins

The 1970s and 1980s saw some bigoted judges make outrageous comments on homosexuality, race and trades unions as Tony McMahon reports

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The day the 1970s died

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago12 months ago29 mins

The 1970s were a stormy decade in politics and music and Tony McMahon sets out to find how the 1970s died

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