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What was life like in 1980’s Britain?
1980’s Britain heralded the age of computer technology. Building on a history of space travel in the 70’s, when we sent a man to the moon, the 80’s began in a confident and pioneering spirit.
NINETEEN GREATIES From Margaret Thatcher to microwaves, how the 1980s fast-forwarded us into the world of today
Often remembered only as the era of the miners’ strike and Maggie Thatcher, one historian argues that the 1980s was actually a revolutionary decade which changed the way we lived for ever.
Timeline - 1980 to 1989
Miners' Strike 1984-1985
The miners' strike of 1984-1985 was one of the most bitter industrial disputes Britain has ever seen. The year-long strike involved hardship and violence as pit communities from South Wales to Scotland fought to retain their local collieries - for many the only source of employment.

North East England in the Seventies and Eighties 1970 to 1989
One of the most important political changes of the 1970s was the establishment of the new counties of Cleveland and Tyne and Wear which swallowed up the most populous chunks of Northumberland, Durham and North Yorkshire.

Why did ‘working-class culture’ disintegrate in the 1980s?
Mason’s short piece is a response to the news that statistics show white working class students to be the worst-performing demographic in British schools. He offers an explanation which in part (at no point does he claim it be an exhaustive explanation) accounts for this situation in terms of the destruction of working class culture in the 1980s.
'England was convulsed by a social and political revolution'
... the 80s began with the election of Margaret Thatcher on 4 May 1979 and ended with the internal party coup that ousted her as prime minister on 28 November 1990.
Is 80s Culture Still Around Today?
From blockbuster hits to headbanging tunes, the 80s injected a new life into an otherwise serious world that we’ve rarely seen from any decade since.

Beckett, A. (2017, December 1). Thatcher, Murdoch, Hillsborough and beyond: What the 1980s did to Britain. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/oct/27/1980s-britain-thatcherism-final-reckoning

Gender roles An incomplete revolution?
In the mid-1980s, close to half the public agreed “a man’s job is to earn money; a woman’s job is to look after the home and family”. Just 13% subscribe to this view now. This decline is primarily a result of generational replacement, with consecutive generations being less supportive of traditional gender roles.
Gender and space in London in the 1980s
A study of differentiation by gender in spatial patterns of economic and demographic characteristics is particularly relevant in London.

North East England in the Seventies and Eighties 1970 to 1989
One of the most important political changes of the 1970s was the establishment of the new counties of Cleveland and Tyne and Wear which swallowed up the most populous chunks of Northumberland, Durham and North Yorkshire.
Pictures: Durham life in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
... colour pictures of Durham in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Miners with pit banners and bands parade through Durham city

Moving Images of the 1980s UK Miners' Strike
By spending eight months in a Durham pit village, Keith Pattison found out that the longest strike in British history wasn't all about cops and miners punching each other in the head.

History | English National Ballet
Interactive timeline starting in 1950 and goes to 2016

Young British Artists
The Young British Artists (YBAs) are a loosely-affiliated group who met in London in the late 1980s and participated in two of the most shocking exhibits of the late-20th century: Freeze (1988) and Sensation (1997).
How The 80’s Changed Modern Art?
With the rise of the 1980s, Art Nouveau, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and other artistic approaches began to replace the earlier visual, intellectual minimalism and conceptualism of the previous decade.