Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of
eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining
moments from Lady Diana’s legs and the miners’ strike to
Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and Adam and the Ants, Lucy Robinson
weaves together an alternative history to the one we think we know.
This is not a history of big geopolitical disasters, or a nostalgic
romp through discos, shoulder pads and yuppie culture. Instead, the
book explores a mashing together of different genres and fan bases
in order to make sense of our recent past and give new insights
into the decade that defined both globalisation and excess. Packed
with archival and cultural research but written with verve and
spark, the book offers as much to general readers as to scholars of
this period, presenting a distinctive and definitive contemporary
history of 1980s Britain, from pop to politics, to cold war
cultures, censorship and sexuality. -- .
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