An advert from 1983 – the late Telly Savalas advertising Bacardi Rum. Best known for his starring role as the tough New York detective, Kojak. That police series was big in the 70s.
An advert from 1983 – the late Telly Savalas advertising Bacardi Rum. Best known for his starring role as the tough New York detective, Kojak. That police series was big in the 70s.
New technology in 1983 involved TVs with text services, washing machines with computer chips and a new generation of microwave ovens
The disastrous lead up to the 1983 general election. Michael Foot interviewed by ITV.
Government papers released now reveal that within Thatcher’s government there was real concern about sole American control of nuclear weapons stationed in the UK – especially at the time of the Greenham Common protests. Defence secretaries John Nott then Michael Heseltine would have liked dual keys over the weapons of mass destruction but they didn’t …
The appalling treatment of Peter Tatchell as a Labour candidate in 1983
1982 – what issues gripped the left?
Paul Weller takes the news badly
In the 80s – did we really wear swimwear like this?!!
1983 was the year that many pop groups bit the dust with Yazoo, Roxy Music and Scritti Politti calling it a day and hanging up their microphone