OK – I’m going to nail my musical colours to the mast first and declare that back in the 1990s, I was in the Blur army and never really warmed to Oasis. To me, and many others, they were standard bearers for a Laddism that seemed to be dragging us back to the worst aspects…
Women’s Lib burst on to the scene in the 1970s but the fight for sexual equality was fierce as Tony McMahon discovers
Here is Mary Whitehouse in 1985 arguing against the movie director Michael Winner and a group of hunks dressed as the cinematic hero Rambo
In recent years, Thatcher has been lauded as a feminist icon – an idea that would have been laughed at in the 1980s
The last years of the Greater London Council and the battle with Thatcher
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – and an 80s womens group at Liverpool University
