1980s Britain - big hair, big bombs, big riots. In 'Bang!' Graham Stewart has written the history of this turbulent, vibrant and revolutionary decade.
Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. With the two main political parties as far apart as at any time since the 1930s, the period was riven by violent confrontation, beginning with the explosion of rioting that rocked England's cities in 1981 and again in 1985; a year-lon…
Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. With the two main political parties as far apart as at any time since the 1930s, the period was riven by violent confrontation, beginning with the explosion of rioting that rocked England's cities in 1981 and again in 1985; a year-lon…
1980s Britain - big hair, big bombs, big riots. In 'Bang!' Graham Stewart has written the history of this turbulent, vibrant and revolutionary decade.
"England won the World Cup in 1966 which I didn't really comprehend at 3 months... Ten years later I was cycling everywhere and wanting to go out more, which I was allowed to do when I was 11. In 1978 the leash was further slackened and I started to develop my own tastes and pre…
"England won the World Cup in 1966 which I didn't really comprehend at 3 months... Ten years later I was cycling everywhere and wanting to go out more, which I was allowed to do when I was 11. In 1978 the leash was further slackened and I started to develop my own tastes and pre…
The Eighties may seem to many of us like yesterday, but they are already two decades ago. Not only have we already become nostalgic for them (witness the recent reunions of eighties bands from Spandau Ballet to Ultravox), but in many ways the decade does seem like a thoroughly f…