1981 (TRIH ep 5)
1981 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the recent past through the prism of The Crown's return to Netflix, focusing on Britain around 1981. They situate the royal wedding and Diana's mythic status against a backdrop of recession, mass unemployment, race riots (notably Brixton), the Maze hunger strikes and political polarization under Margaret Thatcher. The hosts consider how music, sport (especially Ian Botham's Headingley heroics) and pop culture act as a collective memory...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1981
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)