Half a century ago, Philip K. Dick asked, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” and now Ian McEwan is sure those androids are pulling the wool over our eyes. His new novel, “Machines Like Me,” takes ...

I still remember the match, more than 30 years later. On a warm May day in the late spring of 1980, Wales played England in an important British Home Championship match at Wrexham in North Wales. As ...

Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 35, No. 2 (132), Transitions — Transformations: Trajectories of Social, Economic and Political Change after Communism / Transitionen — ...

Watching a football match in Russia often carries echoes of the grim era of hooliganism in 1980s Britain. There are crumbling stadiums, sparse crowds, clashes between hardcore fans and police, and ...

A cricketing tour de force from West Indies and the first blackwash. Whatever challenge was laid down in front of them they swept aside with stunning skill, bravado and flair. The one occasion England ...

Nationwide examines what it is like to be Irish in England. Featuring broadcaster Terry Wogan and author Maeve Binchy. Originally broadcast 4 February 1980. follow BBC Archive. 1980: The Irish in ...

Growing up in the 1970s, Peter Byrne loved watching professional wrestling on television. He found boxing too violent, but, with wrestling, “you had pure theater, and a great deal of fun. There were ...

A Church of England tribunal has upheld a new complaint of child sexual abuse by a disgraced priest who was banned from ...