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Back to the future: 1979-1989
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Here is a list of all the essays you can read on this website.
Essays
1979 and the birth of the 21st century
by a staff writer
A decade of women's activism amidst the politics of the Troubles
by Avila Kilmurray
1984 Los Angeles Olympics
by a staff writer
The age of the Hi-Fi
by Ian Rankin
The Anglo-Iranian Oil company and the Islamic Revolution
by a staff writer
A New Beginning: Ronald Reagan's inauguration
by a staff writer
Animals on the rampage in 1980s pulp horror fiction
by a staff writer
Alvin Toffler and the Third Wave
by a staff writer
Aspiring for retiring — pensions in the 1980s
by a staff writer
Broken — a flash-fiction memory of the Rubik's Cube
by a staff writer
Chimes of Freedom — Bruce Springsteen plays Berlin
by a staff writer
China: Twelfth Night — Eleventh Hour
by Edward Petherbridge
Collecting the Troubles
by Samantha McCombe
The closure of Gartcosh steel works
by Greg Baldi
The consequence of deregulation on the marine environment
by Howard Wood
The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole
by Jonathan Shanklin
Dodgy music, glorious failures and tragedy — Scottish international football
by a staff writer
The Dungeons and Dragons panic of the 1980s
by a staff writer
The home computing revolution
by a staff writer
Denim crazes of the 1980s
by a staff writer
Fashion 88 — Life in a Northern town
by Fiona Jardine
Gay bookselling and Operation Tiger
by a staff writer
Grenada, Operation Urgent Fury and the UK-US special relationship
by a staff writer
Jeanette Winterson gets us fit for the future
by a staff writer
'Just Say No' campaign
by a staff writer
The Lockerbie Disaster, 1988
by a staff writer
London calling: subculture in the early 1980s
by Theresa Coburn and Jonny Slut
Lord Byron and the New Romantics
by Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson
The man behind the mask — Friday 13th films
by a staff writer
Margaret Thatcher elected as Prime Minister
by a staff writer
Mikhail Gorbachev and the de-nuclearisation dream
by a staff writer
Mrs Thatcher elected for second term
by a staff writer
Nineteen thousand and eighty memorable chimes — 1980s London
by Dame Evelyn Glennie
Olympic Games in the 1980s: Controversies and rivalries
by a staff writer
Philippa York and the 1984 Tour de France
by a staff writer
'Right to Buy' in Scotland
by a staff writer
Red Wedge — an 1980s initiative to get young people thinking about politics by a staff writer
Rethinking 1980s social policy
by Peter Beresford
The Romanian Revolution
by a staff writer
The Royal Family in the 1980s
by a staff writer
Scotland and anti-apartheid activity in the 1980s
by a staff writer
Scotland: The United States strategic footprint during the Cold War
by David G Mackay
Scottish football 1979-1985: A New Hope
by a staff writer
Scottish football 1986-1989: The Empire strikes back
by a staff writer
Smash Hits, Q and Empire: popular magazines in the 1980s
by a staff writer
Thatcher's liberal legacy for (in)equalities
by Chris Creegan
The Anglo-Iranian oil company and the Islamic Revolution
by a staff writer
The SNP's occupation of Edinburgh's old Royal High School by Greg Baldi
The Sony walkman: A revolution in sound
by a staff writer
Splitting Image: 1984 and all that
by Jenni Calder
State funerals in the 1980s
by a staff writer
Synth pop in the 1980s
by a staff writer
T+73 — the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster
by a staff writer
That's life in the 1980s
by Esther Rantzen
Technology and turmoil
by Phil Redmond
Testing times — an AIDS test in the 1980s
by Damian Barr
The traffic jam — remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall
by a staff writer
The Velvet Revolution
by a staff writer
The video nasties controversy
by a staff writer
Thinking differently — growing up with the Apple computer
by a staff writer
Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing
by Kate Adie
Whatever happened to Christianity in the 1980s?
by Richard Holloway
Women's protest culture in the 1980s
by Caroline Gausden
Working out under Section 28
by a staff writer
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