This is a fascinating interview below (see video) with a group of young people on Irish TV in 1983. They...
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2021 will be the anniversary of three outbreaks of riots in the UK. Back in 1981, the Thatcher government faced...
Pictured here are my membership cards for the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS) and the Labour Party Young Socialists...
Not long after the 1979 election, Home Secretary William Whitelaw had announced he was going full steam ahead on a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVW1T-BIhfg The Toxteth riot in July 1981 followed a riot in Southall the night before and preceded the Moss Side...
You have to try hard to remember what young people were thinking in 1979, 1980, 1981 as the UK went...
It all seems a long time ago now - and yet mass youth joblessness is back with us in Europe....
You have to wonder how a law passed in 1824 to deal with rough sleepers, many of whom were veterans...
Unemployment was so endemic in certain parts of the UK in the eighties that an under the radar dole culture...
The 80s was a terrible time for many of Britain's youth. They were jobless and obliged to attend really dreadful...