Originally a sometimes windswept-looking woman with slightly wonky teeth, in the 1980s Margaret Thatcher changed. Her outfits grew smarter....

The first commercially available handheld cellular phone ever was unveiled in 1983 (although, according to Motorola, they weren't avail...

Nice brick, mateyboots! The DynaTAC 8000x - the very first hand-held cell phone on the market. The year? 1984! Crikey! Go back thirty-one...

Time to celebrate a very special birthday! Roland Rat was born in the sewer under King's Cross Station on 12 March, and made his TV d...

Since the design, production and issuing of the first new decimal coins in the 1960s, and full decimalisation in 1971, not much had changed ...

As 1982, that famous/infamous year which brought us the Falklands War, ZX Spectrum , Channel 4 and deelyboppers ate its final bag of cheese...

From the Sun , November 23, 1983: Top London hotel, Claridges, have broken their century-old "tie and jacket" tradition so that Bo...

The Eighties Man: Day Two of a fascinating Sun series. FELLAS DON'T FEEL A NINNY IN A PINNY! They'll chip in on the chores. The Sun...

Election '83... Maggie, Lord Such, Tony and Cherie Blair - and Kenny Everett and Elsie Tanner?!! With a General Election in the offing,...

Who could forget the Cabbage Patch Kids? They were dolls which came with their own "adoption papers" and were the subject of a f...

In August 1981, a group of women began a march from Cardiff, Wales, to Berkshire, England. Their destination was the Greenham Common Airba...

Breakfast TV arrived in 1983: on the BBC we had Selina Scott, Frank Bough (in some lovely jumpers) and Francis the weatherman. The style was...