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Author: Mike Rhodes
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2020-02-15
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1445693895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated look at the Routemaster which is an iconic London bus, recognised around the world, from the late 1970s to early 1980.
Author: Alec Forshaw
Publisher:
Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781398105942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis portrait of a fascinating era in London's history will be of interest to all those who remember the 1980s or know London well.
Author: Alec Forshaw
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1398105953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis portrait of a fascinating era in London’s history will be of interest to all those who remember the 1980s or know London well.
Author: Tim Brown
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2024-09-15
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 1398117471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFully illustrated historical portrayal of the changing face of transport in London through the 1980s.
Author: Philip Tew
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-02-27
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1441168532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes. Viewed from the perspective of more recent theorisations of crisis following both 9/11 and the 21st-century financial crash, this study makes sense of why and how writers of the 1980s constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of fundamental crises.
Author: Joseph Brooker
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-05-08
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0748669043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates developments in fiction, poetry and drama to social change - from the new generation of London novelists such as Martin Amis and Ian McEwan to the impact of feminism in the writing of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
Author: Imogen Racz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-11-26
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 135019154X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sculptural history of the long 1980s has been dominated by New British Sculpture and Young British Artists. Arguing for a more expansive history of British sculpture and its supporting infrastructures, these twenty-three vivid and enthralling interviews with artists, curators, dealers and facilitators working then demonstrate the interconnected networks, diversity of ideas and practices, energy, imagination and determination that transformed British art from being marginal to internationally celebrated. With a substantial introduction, this timely volume provides valuable new insights into the education, work, careers, studios, infrastructures and exhibitions of the artists and facilitators, substantially enlarging our understanding of the era.
Author: Joseph Brooker
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-05-08
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0748633960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the new generation of London novelists, such as Martin Amis and Ian McEwan, to feminism in the writing of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson, Joseph Brooker relates developments in fiction, poetry and drama to social change. He shows how working class writers such as James Kelman and Tony Harrison protested against Thatcherism and explores the voices of Black British writers including Fred D'Aguiar and Hanif Kureishi. As for the theory of the decade, Brooker relates the rise of postmodernism to the popularity of self-conscious modes of writing and other developments in literary theory."e;
Author: Richard Jenkins
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521389686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition, first published in 1989, looks at the problems of racism and equal opportunity in employment and government policies towards them in Britain. It brings together a group of specialist contributors and covers the major areas of debate, including the law, policies towards unemployment, job training and the labour market, the role of the public and private sectors, the role of trade unions, the gap between policies and pronouncements on equal opportunity and their implementation, and the related issue of sectarian discrimination in Northern Ireland. It looks at the future prospects for equal opportunities and provides conclusions for policy. In particular, it aims to address important topics such as the assumptions underlying policies and whether they realistically reflect reality, the actual effect of legislation, and the relationship between power disparities in society as a whole and racial inequality.
Author: Jonathan Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0429624360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Global 1980s takes an international perspective on the upheaval across the world during the long 1980s (1979–1991) with the end of the Cold War, a move towards a free-market economic system, and the increasing connectedness of the world. The 1980s was a decade of unimaginable change. At its start, dictatorships across the world appeared stable, the state was still seen as having a role to play in ensuring people’s well-being, and the Cold War seemed set to continue long into the future. By the end of the decade, dictatorships had fallen, globalisation was on the march and the opening of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the end of the Cold War. Divided into four chronological parts, sixteen chapters on themes including domestic politics, the global spread of democracy, international relations and global concerns including AIDS, acid rain and nuclear war, explore how world-wide change was initiated both from above and below. The book covers such topics as ideological changes in the liberal democratic west and socialist east, protests against nuclear weapons and for democratic governance, global environmental worries, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Offering an overview of a decade in transition, as the global order established after 1945 broke down and a new, globalised world order emerged, and supported by case studies from across the world, this truly global book is an essential resource for students and scholars of the long 1980s and the twentieth century more generally.
