At the National Gallery of Art, ‘This is Britain’ paints a portrait of a disunited kingdom, beset by economic woes and racial strife In early-1980s Britain, dub reggae melded with post-punk in eerie ...

The British Invasion was long over by the 1980s. However, that doesn’t mean that some seriously killer rock bands from across the pond didn’t launch incredible careers (or, otherwise, peaked) in the ...

This autumn sees the launch of a major new book and exhibition devoted to examining the multiplicities of photography during 1980s Britain. Peter Dench finds out more 1980s Britain. A payload of ...

If you grew up in America, the early history of home computers in the UK might not be familiar to you. But Great Britain produced innovative personal computers that were as equally successful and ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Over the last 20 years there is no technology that has affected daily life as much as the ...

A teacher faces difficult choices in "Blue Jean," the first feature from filmmaker Georgia Oakley. The story takes place in 1980s England, but our critic Bob Mondello says it could easily be set in ...

The cover of "Jamaica Road" beside author Lisa Smith. (Courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf) Deborah Becker speaks with British Jamaican author Lisa Smith about her debut novel "Jamaica Road." It centers ...

Britain’s managerial class increasingly resembles that of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. They know that change is coming, but they’re doing their utmost to ignore the fact as best they can, for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Britain rose by 5.5 percent in the past year and are at their highest levels since the 1980s, health authorities said on Tuesday. The Health Protection ...

The title character in Blue Jean, the debut feature by writer-director Georgia Oakley, is a lesbian gym teacher on a journey of self acceptance in Margaret Thatcher's England. A teacher faces ...