The Russell T Davies series It’s a Sin shows what it was like to be young and gay in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher and with AIDS
The Russell T Davies series It’s a Sin shows what it was like to be young and gay in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher and with AIDS
Wearing a CND badge – a leftie Christmas card I received around 1981.
Those huge CND demos in the early 80s
Back in 1980, the UK government gave advice on how to survive a nuclear war that was rubbished at the time as Tony McMahon discovers
The early 1980s saw many local councils in the UK declare themselves to be nuclear free zones but what did this actually mean?
The Falklands War in 1982 rescued the then unpopular Thatcher government and led to the general election victory of 1982 as Tony McMahon reports
The early 1980s saw a surge in anti-nuclear protest with the Greenham Common peace camp, CND and a movement against nukes