Twirling back down the years to the 1980s, the "Style Decade", is such a pleasure. Want to know what to eat? How to furnish you...

So excited to read that Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself , the Thames TV comedy written by David Firth and Peter Tilbury (now mainly ...

Georgina asks: What is that material draped across the foreground of the photo of your 1980s bedroom? Ah, Georgina, t'was my coat - ...

  Lovely 1980s Cadbury's Wispa chocolate bar (read our article on Wispa here ), with bar code and sticky price label. 18p! And they w...

"Vorsprung durch Technik" - what?!! Apparently, it means something along the lines of "advancement through technology" i...

Double page advertisement from 1984 for the Commodore 16 complete starter pack - Everything you need To start computing in one box . Some...

From the Sunday Mirror , 25/10/1981:   Thousands of ban-the-bomb marchers staged a massive demonstration through the streets of centra...

Carol writes: I so love 1980s fashion. I've been into the leggings for years now, but the current trend for '80s style boyfriend j...

One of the funniest new TV advertisements of 1981 was a James Bond spoof - the latest in the PG Tips chimp saga. Michael Jayston was the sua...

One of my step-father's favourite chart hits of 1980 was that rollicking "rockney" outing Rabbit , by those two likely geeze...

Daily Mirror , 31/12/1983: The Smiths are my favourite group of the moment. I was delighted to see "This Charming Man" crack ...

Part of a magazine advertisement from October 1986. Another advertisement - this time from November. Who was this mysterious "Sid...

  Wishing you all the very best for 2013. Hope your New Year's Day isn't like one of mine back in the '80s, as revealed in a t...

May we at '80s Actual be possibly the first to wish you an absolutely tubular Christmas and New Year? We've included bel...

Returning to the theme of living life in the style of The Glorious 1980s, how about buying some lovely knitwear or sweatshirts from the ...