Wishing all our readers a very Happy New Year - and a Happy New Decade too! Of course, there'll never be another decade with the glitz, ...

Rita Fairclough (Barbara Knox) gives husband Len (Peter Adamson) a right lambasting before walking out on him in 1980. What were UK soap ope...

Another year almost over... and the 1980s become even further away. Next year 1980 will be thirty years ago. Yes, thirty. It doesn't see...

It's New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve 1982, that is, and the telly pages of the Daily Mirror are looking forward to 1983. So, wh...

Adam Ant, AKA Stuart Goddard, emerged from the ashes of Punk and relaunched himself as the Dandy Highwayman of New Romantic pop. His image ...

  Before the 1980s, I never even dreamt of having double glazed windows. My bedroom window was an old wooden sash, ice formed on the insid...

From the Daily Mail , April 15, 1981. British Telecom arrived in 1980 and in 1981 began selling phones for the very first time. Before tha...

Does anybody else remember the Texas Tom TV ads? The words to the ads were set to a country and western dirge, and sung by a very rugged-sou...

Jim has written to ask me for advice about producing a blog based on the events and pop culture of a particular decade. Very flattering, alt...

T here was no House Music in 1980. It did not exist. No true Hip Hop scene either (we'd just experienced the first Rap record to chart)...

As health workers pelted Mrs Thatcher's car with eggs, Keith Chegwin ("Cheggers") and Maggie Philbin, the Posh and Becks of 1...

1981: Detail from the original opening titles of Willo The Wisp.  It wasn't in quite the same league as The Magic Roundabout , but...