Two parties brought the Labour government of Jim Callaghan to its knees – the Liberals and the Scottish Nationalists. Both might have ended up wondering if they’d done the right thing. The SNP was furious at Callaghan for not pushing through Scottish…
Peter Tatchell – the prolific human rights campaigner – first came to national prominence as the Labour candidate in a by-election held in Bermondsey, south London, in 1983. If ever an episode in politics revealed the prejudices and bigotries of the age,…
David Bowie - it wasn’t always adulation
Well, for most of the time it was adulation in the 70s and 80s but Bowie wasn’t immune to criticism…
1982 – what issues gripped the left?
1982 - what issues gripped the left?
The first term of Thatcher – 1979 to 1983 – was many things politically but never dull. For the…
Sussex University is compiling an online archive of news and ephemera from the 1980s called ‘Observing the 80s’ – a joint project between the Mass Observation Project, the British Library Oral History Collections and the University of Sussex Library.…
As I stood in the Strand, central London, she drifted past…
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My photos from Thatcher’s funeral today
I was on the Strand and while it might have been five deep in Whitehall or near St Paul’s, there…
London and the south east had a swing to the Tories in 1979 that was 50% higher than the rest of the country. The GLC was already in Tory hands under the leadership of Horace Cutler. He was looking forward to a close working relationship with Thatcher…
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