The Falklands War: Afterlife (TRIH ep 172, part 4)
1982 · Resource
This is the final episode of the hosts' Falklands War series. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the immediate political and cultural consequences of the 1982 conflict: Thatcher’s boosted popularity and short-lived cross-party goodwill; parliamentary reactions; controversy over a thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s (Archbishop Robert Runcie’s sermon and tabloid criticism); and celebratory military parades.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1982
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)