1979 saw tensions fuelled by extreme Right activity reach breaking point in Southall as a riot broke out. Tony McMahon looks back.
1979 saw tensions fuelled by extreme Right activity reach breaking point in Southall as a riot broke out. Tony McMahon looks back.
British Asian youth began a concerted fightback against racism and bigotry in the late 1970s after a period of horrific attacks as Tony McMahon discovers
The late 1970s saw a wave of attacks on LGBT people and ethnic minorities by young thugs of identifying as skinhead so what was the motive? Tony McMahon investigates.
Before and after the 1981 riots in Liverpool, the big question was who should control the Merseyside police as Tony McMahon discovers
Liverpool had seen massive riots in 1981 and now Prime Minister Thatcher and the establishment needed to react as Tony McMahon discovers
In these blog posts, I’m casting my mind back to my first year at university in Liverpool. I arrived in the aftermath of the Toxteth riots and a city in ferment. Can’t deny it was very exciting. But it was also a time of massive poverty and sky-high rates of unemployment as well as shocking …
Both unemployment and inflation soared in the first two years of the Thatcher government though the Tories were open to a rise in the jobless figures
Between 1979 and 1981, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher presided over an unprecedented economic recession that devastated manufacturing industry
In the late 1970s, every year at the Notting Hill Carnival ended in a riot reflecting poor relations between the Metropolitan Police and black youth
The 1979 Thatcher government introduced a form of austerity economics called monetarism that ended up being a complete failure