Reagan Archives

It’s a Sin – LGBT in the Thatcher era

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The Russell T Davies series It’s a Sin shows what it was like to be young and gay in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher and with AIDS

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Wearing a CND badge – a leftie Christmas card I received around 1981.

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Those huge CND demos in the early 80s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog10 years ago11 months ago020 mins

Back in 1980, the UK government gave advice on how to survive a nuclear war that was rubbished at the time as Tony McMahon discovers

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The early 1980s saw many local councils in the UK declare themselves to be nuclear free zones but what did this actually mean?

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The Falklands War in 1982 rescued the then unpopular Thatcher government and led to the general election victory of 1982 as Tony McMahon reports

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The early 1980s saw a surge in anti-nuclear protest with the Greenham Common peace camp, CND and a movement against nukes