I've been thinking a lot about 1983 lately. I have my reasons! But a good one I can share with you is the fact that the summer of 1983...

One of the most successful  and best-remembered TV ad campaigns of the 1980s was for the breakfast cereal Shredded Wheat, featuring severa...

Fashion snobs like to call this Adidas top "classic" (don't mention the '80s), but actually it's pure 1980s. Pete ...

Laura has written for help in dating a couple of items she has recently found in her store room. Both look '80s, but I'd love to b...

From the TV Times , 27 September - 3 October 1986: Alf's got it right   Grumbling may be one of the characteristics of Coronation S...

Howard Jones and a lovely brolly (£2-99 - a snip!) star on a 1985 "Smash Hits" cover... Lovely freebies... Mid-1980s ...

June Brown first appeared as Dot Cotton, chain smoking launderette attendant of the EastEnders serial, in episode 40, broadcast in Jul...

Dateline: Mid-1980s...  ALF was created by puppeteer Paul Fusco. In 1986, he crash landed his space craft into the garage of the Tanner fa...

I love this imagery from publicity material for National Geographic's The '80s: The Decade That Made Us series, a look back at my ...

An e-mail from Rhys: I was born in 1980, but I remember when I was little having a Weetabix cereal bowl. Would you have any details of thi...

I had brilliant fun today, wearing 1980s style clothes - the skinniest skinny jeans (stonewashed of course!), the nicest linen jacket (wit...

Which way to 1985 - and which 1985 will it be?! From the Sun , 23/11/1989...   He has soft, shoulder-length auburn hair. His 5ft 4 in f...

Ah, 1984... Ronald Reagan won his second term in office as President of the USA; Margaret Thatcher had won her second General Election wit...

Catherine has written and hopes to stump me...  On the subject of 1980s screen entertainments, if I was to name a few characters from a pa...

Daily Mirror, December 1980: Maggie was accused of being Scrooge by Labour MP Ian Wrigglesworth who had sent her a "dossier of despai...

More communications received. And we're thrilled to answer your queries, old mateyboots! Even our carphone's got its own filofa...

Charlotte writes: I admire your blog alot and luv spending time here. I was wondering about something a bit on the obscure side from the...

Glenda Banks (Lynette McMorrough) is thrilled to hear from the hospital that the time has come for her to try for a test tube baby. Her moth...