1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know
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The History of the 1980s
The 1980s proved such an enduring cultural reference point in a way that you know other other decades apart from maybe the six days haven't. It's partly because of all of the new forms of major technology that developed around VHS cable satellite broadcasting outside broadcasting with smaller cameras. The ideas around invented traditions nostalgia retro cultures those actually come from the 1980s and so we can we continue to use them and apply them back on themselves it's a decade that was all was already looking backwards and at the present at the same time.
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