Pathe Collection -A Year To Remember - The 1980s DVD

Using rare news footage and interviews from the BBC British Pathe and other news services this extraordinary series provides a unique year by year look at what was making the news in that most colourful of decades - The 1980s. With a whole hour long show on each year the result is an amazing insight into the decade of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Regan Yuppies big hair New Romantics Perestroika and designer everything! The decade was a time of huge contrasts for the United Kingdom. The unabated rise of capitalist culture in the ideal of a share and property-owning... democracy was in stark contrast to the privations of the year-long miner's strike and record unemployment - contributing factors to the ever widening North-South divide. Against the backdrop of the ongoing cold war British troops were at war with Argentina over the Falklands Islands and closer to home civil unrest in Northern Ireland continued to claim lives. Riots in Brixton and Toxteth brought anarchy to British city centres. The whole world was shocked by the Chernobyl disaster the Challenger explosion and people across the globe mourned the murder of John Lennon. Relive all these events and many many more with A Year To Remember - The 1980s. [show more]

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