Benn, Tony 344, 345, 346, 536, 542, 544
Blunkett, David 583
Bond, James 331–2
borrowing 696–7
Botham, Ian 634, 636–7, 641
Brideshead Revisited 616
British industry 112, 659
British Leyland 318, 322
Brixton 524
Budget of 1981 447, 449, 451
Cabinet revolt 654
Callaghan, Jim 355
Carrington, Peter 758
Chariots of Fire 621, 623
citizen’s band (CB) radio 26, 27
civil defence 392–3
closure of newspaper during strike 143
CND 404
Coe, Sebastian 626, 627
community care 243
computers 723, 728–9
Conservative administration 649–50
Conservative Party conference 1981 664
conservatories 24
cooking 123
council housing 245
cricket 488
Crosby by-election 667
Cruise missiles 390, 391
Davis, Steve 485, 486, 491
Diana, Princess of Wales 610
Duran Duran 295
economy 92, 112, 200, 458
economists 451–2, 453
Edwardes, Michael 326
EEC budget 177
Falklands factor 835
Falklands War 752, 756–7, 834–5
fashion 66, 614–15, 618
fishing industry 467
Foot, Michael 377, 378–9, 550
football 223
football hooliganism 214, 216
frozen food 125
Gang of Four 422
Gang of Three 365
GLC (Greater London Council) 586
Headingley test match 1981 640
Hearn, Barry 492
Heath’s attack on government 274
home ownership 241
home-centred society 26
house improvements 238
Howe, Sir Geoffrey 90–91
imports 673
inflation 200
Iranian Embassy siege xviii
Jenkins, Roy 360
Joseph, Sir Keith 325
Labour Party 351, 372, 538
activists 340
conference 1980 371–2
‘in memoriam’ announcement 382
Lennon, John 330–31
Livingstone, Ken 578, 591, 595, 598
McDonald’s 133, 134
To the Manor Born 85
Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) 195
microwave cookery 126
Militant Tendency 339
Milton Keynes 682
monetarism 96
Moscow Olympics 182, 185
New Cross fire protest march 502
New Romantics 293
North Sea oil 257
nuclear war 408
opinion polls 655
Ovett, Steve 626, 627
Panorama 805
Paris food fair 137
Peace, Jobs and Freedom 352
peace groups 401
productivity 310
Protect and Survive booklet 393
racial tensions 506–7
recession 200–201, 267
Right to Buy 236, 237
riots 518–19, 521, 522
Robinson, Derek 321, 322
Royal Wedding 603, 604
Ruddock, Joan 400
Sainsbury’s 701
SDP 414, 416, 427, 428, 660
seaside holidays 164
Sloane Rangers 611
snooker on television 489
South Atlantic 744
South Georgia 788
sport 488
steel industry 141
steel strike 150
textile industry 659
Thatcher, Margaret 62, 661–2
Thompson, Daley 631
tourism 4
unemployment 201–2, 273, 477, 480
‘United Kingdom’ (television play) 581
urban decline 254–5
A Very British Coup (Mullin) 529–30
violent crime 519–20
Weston, Simon 829–30
Wets 190, 192–3
Who Dares Wins (film) xxii
Williams, Shirley 363, 414, 416
women as breadwinners 472
women’s rights festival 336
youth unemployment 471, 520
Timmins, Nicholas 524
Tinker, David 800
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (television series) 113
The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (Briggs) 830
Tipton 674
Tipton, Glen 673
Tiswas 503
Titchmarsh, Alan 19
toiletries 497
Tolkien, J. R. R. 672
Tomlinson, Jim 197, 260
The Tomorrow People 712
Top Girls (Churchill) 78–9
wildly overpraised by academics 78
Top of the Pops 277, 398
Tories see Conservative Party
Torode, John 159–60
Torvill, Jayne 628
tourism 4–7
tower blocks 246–50, 252–3
‘Town Called Malice’ (Jam) 475
Townsend, Peter 538–9
Townsend, Sue 72
Townson, Michael xix
Toxteth riots 515–16, 521, 523, 638, 649, 650
toy sales 694–5
Toynbee, Polly 77, 127, 165–6, 249–50, 417, 427, 497, 498, 829–30
disapproves of Brixton housing block 249
disapproves of Falklands War 771
disapproves of king size prawns 127
disapproves of Majorca 165
Tracey, Michael 27
trade unions
at British Leyland 311, 315–16, 318
closed shops 145, 146, 158
Conservative reform plans 143–4, 147–9, 189
declining power 154–5
and Employment Acts 158–9
falling membership 159
and Labour deputy leadership 1981 540–41
and Labour left 343–4, 354
and Labour’s Wembley conference 381–2
Margaret Thatcher’s fears of 151, 153
militancy during 1970s 17, 141–3, 456
new mood in 1980s 156–7, 159–60, 840–41
and Nissan 328
role in defeating Bennites 546
women 71
Trades Union Congress see TUC
Transport and General Workers’ Union see TGWU
Travers, Brian 297
Travolta, John 281
Tribune 427, 768
Tribune Group 531–2, 539, 546–7
Trident nuclear weapons system 389, 406
Trog (Wally Fawkes) cartoon 704
Troops Out movement 598
trousers 59–61
as an assault on family values 59
blamed for rise of homosexuality 60
not worn by Margaret Thatcher 61
Trud 382
Trudeau, Pierre 824
Tube (London underground) 594, 692
Tubeway Army 277–8, 279
TUC (Trades Union Congress) 159, 541
Day of Action 153–4, 156
Tunisia 115
Turin 207–9, 218–19, 221
Turner, Stephanie 67
Turnock, Jeanne 61
Tweedie, Jill 65, 77, 540
Two Ronnies 693
Two Sisters 817, 818
Tyne and Wear 402
Tynemouth 604
UB40 398, 475
Ultravox xxv, 290
unemployment 108, 188, 201–2, 255, 260, 267, 268, 273–4, 275, 659, 703
Black Country 673
black people 504–5
and crime 649
fishing industry 466–7
France 457–8, 478
Great Depression 479–80
Heath, Edward 663
and inflati
on 95, 98, 197
Liverpool 466
manufacturing 466
Northern Ireland 558
People’s March for Jobs 462–4, 535, 587
and riots 521–2, 663
and suicide 469–70, 472–3
trade unions 157, 159
West Germany 478
West Midlands 673–4
women 73, 472
youth 162, 468, 469–71, 520
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) 381
United Democratic Party 719
‘United Kingdom’ (television play) 581
United Nations 777
United States of America
Falklands War 748, 752, 778–81, 789
UK’s alleged subjection to 390–91
visits of Margaret Thatcher to 179–80, 443–7
universities 333–5
Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division) 252
urban decay 252–5, 677–8
Ure, Midge 290
van der Post, Laurens 49
Varley, Eric 475, 665, 703
VAT (Value Added Tax) 100–101, 103, 104
Vaux, Nick 812
Vegetarian Restaurants in England (Nelson) 122
vegetarianism 122
Veinticinco de Mayo 791–2
A Very British Coup (Mullin) 528–30
VIC-20 computer 728, 729
Victoria, Queen 672
video cassettes 283
‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ (Buggles) 300
video recorders 25
videos, music 289–90, 292, 299–300
‘Vienna’ (Ultravox) xxiii, 290–91, 292
Vietnam War 799
villains see double glazing
Villiers, Sir Charles 146–7, 152
Vincent, John 404, 480
Vine, David 485
violent crime 519–20, 522
Visage 290
Volvos see Social Democratic Party
Vulcan bombers 790–91
Wakefield 497–8, 700
Wakefield, Richard 285
Walden, Brian 82, 141, 148, 187–8, 495–6
Walden, George 42
Wales 402, 552–7, 685
Walker, Alexander 622, 623
Walker, David 236, 237, 245
Walker, Martin 332
Walker, Peter 87, 88, 134–5, 137, 170, 191, 649, 652, 661, 704
dog is hell of a fan of Lymeswold 134
dog responsible for Lymeswold shortage 135
Walkman, Sony 301–2
Walsall 466, 581–2, 674
Walters, Alan 104, 196, 259, 312, 437–8, 439, 440, 441–3, 768, 777
Walters, Julie 74
Walvin, James 214, 223
The War Game 400
Warden, John 665
Ware, Martyn 282–3
Warrenpoint xvi, 560
Warrington by-election 429–32, 651
Warsaw Pact 388
Washington Star 10
Wass, Sir Douglas 442, 443
Waterhouse, Keith 33, 692, 799–800
Watford 680
Watkins, Peter 400
Watson, Dave 206
Watson, Ian 332
Watson, John 136
Watt, David xx, 518, 538, 649, 834–5
Watterson, Mike 485, 487, 490, 493
Watts, Patrick 749
Waugh, Evelyn 615
Webb, Jenny 125–6
Webster, Alan 842–3
Weekend World 141, 542, 763
Weetch, Ken 417
Weinberger, Caspar 779
Welland, Colin 620–22, 623–4
Wellbeloved, Jim 181
Wells, Allan 184, 185
Wells, John 160, 262
Welsh Language Society 556
Welsh language television 555–7
Welsh nationalism 554–7
Wesley, John 345
Wessel, Horst 567
West, Harry 565
West, Wally 499
West Bromwich 672, 673
‘grimy’ 674
West Germany 166–7, 169, 292, 389, 398, 422, 478, 649
citizens steal from Spanish breakfast buffets 166
West Ham FC 214, 216
Weston, Simon 816, 829–30
Westwood, Vivienne 615
Wets (Conservative) 190–93, 435, 448, 456, 649, 652, 658, 663
Wetzel, Dave 595
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 21
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey 413–14, 428
When the Wind Blows (Briggs) 397–8
Which? Wine Guide 132
Whitbread, Fatima 628
White, Jerry 510
White, Jimmy 491
Whitehead, Dan 709
Whitehorn, Katharine 77
Whitehouse, Mary 56, 86, 521, 803
Whitelaw, Willie
Cabinet appointment 87
Cabinet colleagues 658
claims that houses are impervious to nuclear fallout 393
Evans, Gwynfor 555–7
Falklands War 776, 784, 795, 796–7, 822, 843
Hadfields steelworks 151
Iranian Embassy siege xvi–xvii
potential replacement for Thatcher 191
Prior, Jim 655
Protect and Survive 393
riots 514, 521, 649
spending cuts 652
Welsh language television 555–7
Whiteley’s 702
Whitmore, Clive 783
Who Dares Wins (film) xxi–xxii
‘Who Dares Wins’ (motto) xx
Widnes 469–70
Wiener, Martin J. 11–12
Wigan 679, 687–8
dreadful place, by reputation 687
perfectly pleasant, in reality 688
Wigley, Dafydd 554
Wilde, Simon 633
Wilkins, Ray 207, 208
William, Prince 839
Williams, Anthony 731, 742
Williams, Frances 73, 257
Williams, Harry 759
Williams, Kenneth 519, 596, 692
not a fan of black people 506
not a fan of CND 406
not a fan of Diana’s wedding dress 607
not a fan of Task Force theatrical tribute 842
Williams, Philip 415
Williams, Richard 294
Williams, Shirley
appearance 63–4, 363
background 363–4
Benn, Tony 345, 548
CND 395
Crosby by-election 665–8
denounced as a lover of chips 63
and Gang of Three 366
inappropriately serious Limehouse attire 412
Jenkins, Roy 359, 423–4
Labour Party
conference 1980 366, 367–8
defection from 416
Liberal Party 426, 432–3
Limehouse Declaration 382, 411–12, 425
maligned by Jenkins’s cronies 423–4
popularity 414
SDP 416–17, 422, 423–6
single mother 363–4
unemployment 476
Warrington by-election 430
Williams, Sir Tom 429–30
Willis, Bob 639, 641
Willis, Richard 495
Wilson, Des 243
Wilson, Harold 8, 33, 51, 172, 193, 231, 341–2
couldn’t give a bugger about the Budget xxvi, 195
press indifference to fine-boned features 62
Wimpy 133, 572
Winchester, Simon 731–2, 820, 830
wine 130, 694
wine bars 131–2
Winnick, David 348, 803
Winter of Discontent 8–9, 144, 154, 156, 193, 194, 348, 349
winter of 1981–2 691–4, 702
Winterton, Nicholas 742–3
WINTEX-CIMEX 81 383–7
Wireless Ridge 818–19
Wisden 488
Wise, Audrey 373, 581
Wise, Valerie 70, 539, 581, 596–7
Wokingham 681
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br /> Wolfson, David 89, 200, 440, 650–51
Wolverhampton 535, 674
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 224–7
formerly world’s greatest team 224
Woman’s Own 795–6, 835
women
allegedly sillier and more aggressive 58
as breadwinners 472–3
Conservative 72
discrimination 499
earnings 71
education 68
employment 58–9, 68–74
empowerment 69–70
financial freedom 70–71
housewives 74–7
housework 72–3
office uniform 64–6
rights 336
self-employment 68–9
sexual freedom 70–71
snooker 497–9
trade unions 71
in trousers 59–61
unemployment 73, 472
working mothers 71, 118, 262
Women, Dress for Success (Molloy) 59
Women’s Billiards and Snooker Association 499
Wood, David 96, 202, 360, 447, 479–80
Woodcock, John 636–7, 641
Woodward, Sandy 755, 775, 787, 791, 792, 810–11, 812, 827
Woolworths 694
working men’s clubs 497–8
working classes
affluence 18, 694, 697–8
aspiration 688–90
and Benn, Tony 345, 347
and Botham, Ian 633
darts 493
destruction of traditional life 220, 678–80
disapproval of Michael Foot’s coat 551
electoral appeal of Margaret Thatcher 52–3
in Essex 495
Falklands War 770
flight from inner London 577
food 118–19, 122–3
football 212–13
holidays 164–5
Hobsbawm, Eric, on 338
lack of interest in SDP 429
masculine image 73–4
and New Romantics 297–8, 300
Ovett, Steve, as champion of 626–7, 629
Peepo! as celebration of 671–2
in the police 507
and Right to Buy 230, 231, 237
in Sheffield 582–3
shock at redevelopment 676–7
as Sloane Rangers’ A-level topic 619
and the Sun 772–3
Tebbit, Norman, and 657
Wolves as symbol of 224, 226
World Snooker Championship xvii, 484–5, 486–7
Worley, Matthew 220–21
Worlock, Derek 462
Worsthorne, Peregrine 765
Wozniak, Steve 711
Wreford-Brown, Chris 792
Wren-Lewis, Simon 160
Wrens (WRNS) 41
Wrigglesworth, Ian 416, 475–6
Wright, Billy 225
Wyatt, Woodrow 46
Yes Minister 97, 332, 357–8
York, Peter 238–9, 280, 283, 332, 428, 611–12, 832
You Can’t Say That (Livingstone) 598
Young, Hugo
Benn, Tony 364
Cabinet revolt 653
Carrington, Peter 171
decline of UK 49
EEC 176
Falklands War 738, 767, 777
Gang of Four 413, 422
Howe, Sir Geoffrey 90–91
Livingstone, Ken 596
Parkinson, Cecil 658
Prior, Jim 112
Reagan, Ronald 443
Thatcher, Margaret 263, 443, 653, 777
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