James Callaghan heckled by Pat Arrowsmith
Jim Callaghan heckled during his 1979 election speech
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Riot police armed with dustbin lids
As the level of civil disturbances rose in the 1970s riot police complained of only having dustbin lids and traffic cones for protection
Tories and racism in the 1970s
What did people around Thatcher think about race relations?
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
Back to the Future with De Lorean
The movie Back to the Future featured a DeLorean car but behind that story was a real-life scandal in Northern Ireland as Tony McMahon discovers
Thatcher inspired satire in the 1980s
Margaret Thatcher was a rich source of satire in the 1980s from cartoonists to TV programme makers as Tony McMahon recalls
Northern Ireland in 1979
The Northern Ireland troubles reached a fever pitch in 1979 with the assassinations of Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten
TV roasting of Margaret Thatcher
One TV viewer gave Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a roasting over the sinking of the Belgrano putting the Iron Lady on the back foot
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
When Thatcher caved in to the miners
In 1981, Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caved into the miners but was simply biding her time for a future showdown