Being told to stand still. The lights going up. The police entering in large numbers. Frisking. Individuals led away. Court...
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I ended the 1980s in Bellshill - just outside Glasgow having spent Christmas in Geneva, Switzerland. A winter holiday season...
Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
One of the first measures introduced by the new Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was the so-called 'short,...
In the 1970s, the struggle for women's liberation - referred to as "Women's Lib" - erupted to the surface. News...
1979 was a general election year in the UK and Margaret Thatcher was about to become Prime Minister. Tensions were...
The late 1970s saw some shocking racist attacks in east London. But it also witnessed the beginning of a fightback...
The Marxist Militant Tendency wielded huge influence in the Labour Party on Merseyside in the 1980s. It operated within the...
Who was going to control the Merseyside police? The police themselves or the civilian local authority? That was a big...
I'm going back in time to 1981 - a year when the first-term Thatcher government was looking at disaster in...