The Sixties will be remembered for mini skirts & mini cars The Beatles & The Rolling Stones boutiques & discotheques & England winning the World Cup. But The 1960s Scrapbook also covers much more with its 1400 colourful items. Television gripped the nation with Coronation Street & The Likely Lads while children were entertained by the Darlecks Thunderbirds & The Man from Uncle. Twiggy became the fashion icon & the E-type jaguar the motoring aspiration for men. James Bond was the spy to emulate & the space race caught everyones imagination including a vast range of space toys. There are now ten Scrapbooks in this series covering the Victorian era up to the 1970s plus the Royal Scrapbook. Together they form an invaluable resource of popular culture & lifestyle. ...

A compendium of milestone stories & watershed events in popular culture national & international politics from 1963 including: The Beatles first No 1 The coldest winter since 1740 Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech The Great Train Robbery The Profumo Affair Ian Brady & Myra Hindleys killings The first woman in Space Valentina Tereshkova James Bond becomes an international phenomenon 70 000 protest against nuclear weapons in London Harold Wilsons election & the onset of new politics & satire The assassination of JFK The BBC launch of Doctor Who ...

Do you remember flares cheesecloth shirts & chopper bikes? What about space hoppers? If you do then it sounds like you were lucky enough to grow up during the 1970s. Who could forget all the glam rock bands of that era like Slade Wizard & Mud or singers like Alvin Stardust Marc Bolan & David Bowie? What about those wonderful TV shows like Starsky & Hutch Kojak & Happy Days? Fashion included platform shoes (we all had a pair) flared trousers brightly patterned shirts with huge collars & colourful kipper ties. & everyone remembers preparing for power cuts & that long hot summer of 1976. For anyone looking to relive their youth in the 1970s this compendium of memories is just the ticket. Following on from the wildly popular A 1950s Childhood & A 1960s Childhood those of us from this memorable decade can also take a nostalgic & hilarious trip down memory lane. ...

Full of pop punk & personalities The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glam rock & disco mania. Teenyboppers screamed for their idols whether David Cassidy David Essex The Osmonds Bay City Rollers or Abba. Colour television brought it all to life with a mixture of comedy from The Good Life to Fawlty Towers. Much of the TV action came from the USA featuring Kojak Starsky & Hutch & the stunt riding of Evel Knievel. For children animals came to life with the Muppet Show & the Wombles while in space new horizons were beamed up with Star Trek & Star Wars on the big screen. Amongst all this fervour Britain had been set the mathematical challenge of decimalisation in 1971 & then in 1977 the celebrations came for the Queens Silver Jubilee. ...

What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers smartphones DVD players games consoles or the Internet? Imagine a time when sharing music meant taking a record round to your friends house; when making a quick phone call could involve queuing outside a red telephone box! This book looks at the fads & fashions music hobbies & TV programmes which defi ned the 70s for many youngsters. If you remember riding a chopper reading Jackie during the Winter of Discontent or watching the Bay City Rollers on Top of the Pops during the long hot summer of 1976; this book is for you. A 1970s Teenager is a nostalgic & colourful account of what it was like to be young in the most exciting decade of all! ...

Do you remember trying to solve the Rubiks cube whilst dressed in your He-Man picture pyjamas? Did you try to make cool sound effects with your mouth like Jones from Police Academy? Or maybe you swooned over Scott & Charlenes (aka Jason & Kylies) wedding of the year? If that sounds like you theres no mistaking you were a child of the eighties. Rev up your De Lorean switch on the Flux Capacitor & take a cruise back through the decade that made you the person you are today. This amusing & entertaining collection of reminiscences will jog the memories of all who grew up in the same decade where greed was good mullets were cool & white dog poo littered the streets. ...

The extraordinary events of the 1982 Formula One season are still hard to believe 25 years on. Most memorable of all was the thrilling fight for the title
- the 16 races were won by 11 different drivers
- & the controversy surrounding the deaths of three men two of them Grand Prix icons. There were also ominous sub-currents not least the FOCA-FISA war the struggle between the turbo & normally aspirated teams & the driver rebellion over super licences. Packed with fresh insight from interviews & new research this superbly illustrated all-colour book captures all the drama of a remarkable year.

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Nineteen Eighty Threes" three intertwining story lines see the " Quartets" central themes of corruption & the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ the rent boy from " Nineteen Seventy Four" the lawyer Big John Piggott
- whos as near as you get to a hero in Peaces world
- & Maurice Jobson the senior cop whose career of corruption & brutality has set all this in motion find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance. " Nineteen Eighty Three" is an epic tale which concludes an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative & remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years."

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John Lowe was at the forefront of the fight for jobs during the twelve months of the miners strike from 1984-5 as the elected chairman of Clipstone Collierys strike committee in the largely working county of Nottinghamshire. The dirty war fought by the Thatcher Government to defeat the formidable National Union of Mineworkers transformed him from passive family man into political animal: witness to many disturbing events he recorded his experiences in a diary so they would never be forgotten. There is the initial confusion & scramble to organise; the London rally which the police sought to turn into a riot; his arrest & fast-tracking through the court system; the legendary pensioner friend Sid beaten black & blue at a police roadblock; unifying events such as Christmas; the slow trickle back to work; & finally the dreaded day the strike ended
- & first harrowing weeks back at the coalface among people he despised. With the scars left by the dispute still fresh upon him he reflected upon events both at local & national level. If Spirit Alone Won Battles interweaves his diaries & this reflection is illustrated by an exhaustive collection of photographs correspondence court documents & campaign literature. It is a tale of heartbreak; but also a testament to the unquenchable spirit & stomach to fight of men & women with a just cause.
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Ingenious chilling & darkly comic 1985" is a terrifying vision of the future by the great postmodern storehouse of British writing Anthony Burgess. In characteristically daring style Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwells 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues parodies & essays Burgess sheds new light on what he called an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears creating a critique that is literature in its own right. Part two is Burgess own dystopic vision written in 1978. He skewers both the present & the future describing a state where industrial disputes & social unrest compete with overwhelming surveillance security concerns & the dominance of technology to make life a thing to be suffered rather than lived. Together these two works form a unique guide to one of the twentieth centurys most talented imaginative & prescient writers. Several decades later Burgess most singular work still stands." ...