c 1980 to c 1989

Stella Nickell's small-time world was one of big-time dreams. In 1986, her biggest one came true when her husband died during a seizure, making her the beneficiary of a $175,000-plus insurance payoff - until authorities discovered Bruce Nickell's headache capsules had been laced with cyanide. In ...

In April 1989, a female jogger in Central Park was raped and repeatedly beaten. Within days 5 black and Latino teenagers were apprehended by the Central Park precinct and all 5 confessed to the crime. In this account of the real facts, Sara Burns examines one of New York City's most notorious cri...

On the morning of the 28th of January 1986, just 73 seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people on board. Like the assassination of JFK, the disaster is a defining moment in 20th century history - one that forever changed the way Am...

On the 26th of April 1986, at 1:23am, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. A generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging the Establishment writers of the 1950s. It began with two names - Martin Amis and Ian McEwan - an...

Offers 36 cards introducing and examining people, places and events of the decades. This title includes 36 A5 cards that featuring specific moments, individuals and events of particular significance during these two pivotal decades in the economic and cultural development of the modern world.

Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the Brixton riots; the Moscow Olympics and the miners' strike; the Crucible Theatre and the Falklands - to explore how we got to where we are now. Discover how sport became fully entwined in our national story; how sporting heroes were made, and de...

This wide-ranging and extensively researched book, which draws on previously undiscovered archives, interviews and memoirs, offers a radical new perspective on the interrelationship between religion and politics in Britain's secular age, revealing how Britain created Margaret Thatcher and, ultima...

'Good As You' is the 30 year history of British gay culture - from the identification of the HIV virus in 1984, through Manchester's self-selection as Britain's gay capital, to Eastenders' Colin and Barry's first primetime televised gay kiss and the real-time romance of Elton John and David Furni...

On 28th May 1982, 450 men of the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment - 2 Para - went into action to retake the settlement of Goose Green on East Falkland, where more than 1000 Argentine soldiers were holding 119 Falkland Islanders - men, women, children and one baby - in squalid conditions. For...