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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...
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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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One of the first measures introduced by the new Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was the so-called 'short,...
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In the 1970s, the struggle for women's liberation - referred to as "Women's Lib" - erupted to the surface. News...
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1979 was a general election year in the UK and Margaret Thatcher was about to become Prime Minister. Tensions were...
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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...
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Who was going to control the Merseyside police? The police themselves or the civilian local authority? That was a big...
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I'm going back in time to 1981 - a year when the first-term Thatcher government was looking at disaster in...
