Corporal punishment in 1970s schools
Corporal punishment was a constant feature of 1970s schools reducing children to a terrorised state as TV historian Tony McMahon remembers
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Police raids of clubs in the 1980s and 1990s
Night clubs in the 1980s and 1990s were often subjected to police raids for various reasons as TV historian Tony McMahon recalls
New Years Eve in Glasgow in the 1980s
In 1989, TV historian Tony McMahon spent the last New Year’s Eve of the decade in Bellshill just outside Glasgow and it was a culture shock!
Coventry heroes escaping the Ghost Town
In 1981 – Coventry really was the Ghost Town but local heroes like Neville Staple and Errol Christie were trying to make a difference – as Tony McMahon reports
Short Sharp Shock – nightmare prison regime
Short Sharp Shock was a military-style prison regime for young offenders that wrecked lives and didn’t work as Tony McMahon discovers
1967 – when abortion became legal in the UK
From the 1960s to the 1990s, abortion became a culture war issue that is hugely divisive down to the present day as TV historian Tony McMahon reports
Can we avoid a recession by looking at the 1990s?
The next recession will very likely resemble the early 1990s when suicide rates soared as TV historian Tony McMahon recalls and reports
Yuppie TV ads of the 1980s
In the 1980s, the yuppie phenomenon was latched on to by the advertising industry creating a slew of yuppie TV ads as Tony McMahon discovers
1970s feminism – the fight for women’s liberation
Women’s Lib burst on to the scene in the 1970s but the fight for sexual equality was fierce as Tony McMahon discovers
Nigel Lawson – the 1980s Tory Chancellor
In the 1980s, I lived with Nigel Lawson’s nephew while his uncle was Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and architect of her financial policies.