Women’s Lib – hostility to equality in the 1970s
Women’s Lib burst on to the scene in the 1970s but the fight for sexual equality was fierce as Tony McMahon discovers
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Mary Whitehouse versus Rambo hunks
Here is Mary Whitehouse in 1985 arguing against the movie director Michael Winner and a group of hunks dressed as the cinematic hero Rambo
Thatcher was not a feminist
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
The last years of the Greater London Council and the battle with Thatcher
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – and an 80s womens group
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – and an 80s womens group at Liverpool University