c 1980 to c 1989

The 1980s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jo...

The 1980s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jo...

Tony Doherty has lived in the shadow of his father's execution on Bloody Sunday. At 18 he found himself facing long-term imprisonment, yet the soldier who shot his father was a free man. 'The Skelper and Me' is no ordinary memoir. It is a triumph of working class resolve and resilience over the l...

Born into the slums of Glasgow in the late '70s, four-year-old John's life is filled with the debris of alcoholism and poverty. Soon after witnessing a drowning, his mother's addictions take over their lives, leaving him starving in their flat, awaiting her return. A concerned neighbour reports h...

Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home. The family - that small circle of being where love should flourish - can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite.

Catherine Taylor's account of growing up in northern England in the 1970s and 80s shines a light on the particular history of a time and place - that 'strange country of the North' as George Orwell famously called it. Against this backdrop, and of music, the miners' strike, fears of nuclear war, ...

When Fleetwood Mac were recording & touring with their classic album 'Rumours', they were one of the biggest music acts in the world. But behind the facade of their pop songs was a world of internal animosity & strife, drug use, incestuous sexual shenanigans & wild partying. This is the story fro...

Two gifted photographers document every aspect of subway art: its origins and history, styles and techniques, vocabulary and conventions, the philosophy of the artists and the hostility of unappreciative authority to a cultural phenomenon that is equally fascinating in its social and artistic sig...

A joyous, nostalgic celebration of eighties culture from one man at the centre of it all. In this candid, evocative memoir, Martin Kemp reflects on the unforgettable decade that made him - and that he in turn helped to shape. Join Martin as he reminisces on leading the New Romantics, heady nights...

In the early 80s, 20 black West Indian cricketers were paid more than $100,000 each to take part in rebel tours of apartheid South Africa. Some, such as Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kallicharran, were household names in the Caribbean and around the world, while others were fringe players seeking a sho...