c 1970 to c 1979

On April 12th, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to go into space. This book tells the astonishing story of how it happened, why it happened - and what happened next.

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.

Bristol, 1979. An attacker roams the streets. Young women are warned not to go out alone. Enter the Decoys. For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all their usual tactics to catch the 'Clifton Rapist', and public pressure was mounting. In 1979, ...

In the late 1970s, aggressive, young bands are forming across Britain. Independent labels are springing up to release their music. But this isn't the story of punk. Forget punk. Punk was a flash in the pan compared to this. This is the story of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, a musical movem...

In 1977, Laurie Cunningham became the first black footballer to play professionally for England and, two years later, went on to become the first Englishman to play for Real Madrid. In a time when race relations were a divisive social issue, and when racist chants and bananas would be thrown from...

Get It On is a book about 1970s football and some of its prime movers and shakers, cult figures and accidental heroes.

A decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a new generation of footballers and managers became 'personalities' in the brash new era of colour television. Set against a backdrop of 3 day weeks, strikes, political unrest, freezing winters and glam rock, 'Get It On' tells the fascinating insi...

Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary. Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological problems, and his step-father's untreated ones, life at home was dysfunctional at best. But with gun-wielding school masters and sub-standard living conditions, Quaker boarding school wasn't much better...

Diana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish region of Iran in the 1960s and 70s. She became involved in politics as a teenager and, like many students, played a part in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. But th...

When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his 25-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby. Growing up in South East London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream ...