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I went to a birthday party for Nelson Mandela at Wembley Stadium in the late '80's and remember singing with gusto "Free-ee-ee Nelson Mandela" a lot before that.
Now he's not only free, but has been President of SA!
What other history have we lived through?
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The rise (and fall) of our first and only female prime minister?
The falling of the berlin wall and the end of the soviet union?
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The moon landing although I am too young to actually remember it.
I too remember singing Free Nelson Mandela many times although I did not have the T-shirt 
There was a really interesting interview on the radio yesterday with a man who'd been on the strike committee at Bilston Glen Colliery in the 1980s during the miners strike. So, the Miners Strike and subsequent decimation of the British coal industry, was it 1985?
Poll Tax refusal and riots.
Live Aid (the first one).
Scotland getting it's own parliament again.
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The whole Diana story from her meeting Prince Charles to her death.
A solar eclipse.
The Falklands war.
The technical revolution: invention and general availability of computers, video recorders, DVD, CD etc |
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The whole Diana story from her meeting Prince Charles to her death.
A solar eclipse.
The Falklands war.
The technical revolution: invention and general availability of computers, video recorders, DVD, CD etc |
same as you!
plus the Beatles (I remember the first showing of 'Yellow Submarine' on tv and flower power hippies - yes I'm old!)
Walking round the Biba store in Kensington
Remember the John Mccarthy etc hostage crisis? I went to a few 'Free John' fundraiser gigs and wore my badge with pride - I cried tears of joy when he was set free.
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There was a really interesting interview on the radio yesterday with a man who'd been on the strike committee at Bilston Glen Colliery in the 1980s during the miners strike. So, the Miners Strike and subsequent decimation of the British coal industry, was it 1985?
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That would be 1985. I was at Uni and I can remember a girl who was a member of the Tory Soc running down the corridor of the hall of residence shouting "we've won! we've won! we've won!" when the strike ended. Unbelievable. Stupid cow. |
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Mobile phones
Status Quo's "End of the Road" tour in 1984 which was supposedly their last ever 
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I remember going to a Free Nelson Mandela Concert at Wembley.
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Thought of another couple last night. Death of Elvis and shooting of John Lennon.
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Decimalisation and going metric...................The Falklands Crisis.................Two Gulf Crisis......................The expansion of the European Union.......................
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Rise and fall of punk rock
Golden Jubilee year
Britain joining the common market (remember that!?)
The demise of the £1 note!
The CD player revolution
The contaceptive pill (yep, I'm old too!)
Miners strike- 1984 for sure as I remember donating tins and stuff outside the supermarkets when I lived in Brum. |
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Thought of another one today - Franco's Spain. Can you imagine that it used to be a politically oppressive country governed by a dictator? And can you remember that Italy used to be a very poor country? And how impoverished Ireland used to be?
Seeing video recorders come and go - wow technology moves fast now.
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The demise of the £1 note!
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We still have £1 notes in Scotland.
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Thought of another one today - Franco's Spain. Can you imagine that it used to be a politically oppressive country governed by a dictator? And can you remember that Italy used to be a very poor country? And how impoverished Ireland used to be?
Seeing video recorders come and go - wow technology moves fast now.
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lol, yes, dh went just after Franco fall- main thing (ok- only!) he remembers is how big and cheap the alcohol portions were! |
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The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, now at last at an end.
The Cuban missile crisis
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