Artists, Film, Writers, Composers, Theatre 1980s224

06-01-1983 - Frank Zappa with LSO, Barbican, London 1983. Zappa talking about his concert with the London Symphony Orchestra © NLA

01-08-1989 - Republican protest Republican accordion band. West Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1989 © Howard Davies

20-07-1989 - Man rides on a merry-go-round horse. © Paul Carter

20-07-1989 - Girls ride on a fast fairground ride. © Paul Carter

06-07-1989 - Loyalist mural in West Belfast commemorating the victory of William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne © Philip Wolmuth

15-04-1989 - Yacht sailing past the Chapel (now a museum) in Royal Victoria Country Park. © Paul Carter

21-02-1989 - Walkers and pumping station, Lower Neuadd Reservoir, Brecon Beacons National Park, Powys, South Wales. Built after an Act of 1876 to supply water to Merthyr Tydfil. It was finished in 1884 and designe... © John Harris

25-11-1988 - Jim Slater and John Prescott. Presentation of a mural 1988 painted by Michael Jones (Jack Jones's son) on occasion of Jim Slater's retirements from the NUS, Maritime house, London © John Harris

25-11-1988 - Sam McCluskie, Jim Slater, Michael Jones, Jack Jones, 1988. Presentation of a mural painted by Michael Jones (Jack Jones's son) on occasion of Jim Slater's retirements from the NUS, Maritime house, Lo... © John Harris

05-11-1988 - Young girl holding a sparkler. © Paul Carter

05-11-1988 - Young girl holding a sparkler. © Paul Carter

16-03-1988 - Urban architecture Thamesmead London © Stefano Cagnoni

18-01-1988 - Acid rain damage to gargoyles, York Minster © John Harris

16-01-1988 - Portland Young Offenders Institution, Dorset. © David Mansell

16-01-1988 - Portland Young Offenders Institution, Dorset. © David Mansell

04-11-1987 - Don Ross, Editor of Labour Weekly, talking with Simon Guttmann, Secretary of Report, at the latter's offices in Oxford Street, London © Stefano Cagnoni

04-11-1987 - Don Ross, Editor of Labour Weekly, talking with Simon Guttmann, Secretary of Report, at the latter's offices in Oxford Street, London © Stefano Cagnoni

04-11-1987 - Don Ross, Editor of Labour Weekly, talking with Simon Guttmann, Secretary of Report, at the latter's offices in Oxford Street, London, Behind them on the telephone is photojournalist, Lanre Fehintola. © Stefano Cagnoni

22-09-1987 - Man and bear relaxing on a park bench. © Paul Carter

10-06-1987 - Norwegian Church, Cardiff Docks, Cardiff Bay, Wales 1987. The historic church was a place of worship for the Norwegian seafaring community. Known as the Little White Church it was a mission of the Chu... © John Harris

29-04-1987 - Nigel Williamson, Editor of Tribune magazine from 1984 to 1987. He also edited Labour Party News (19871989) and New Socialist (198789). In 1989 Williamson joined The Times as a political correspondent © Stefano Cagnoni

02-04-1987 - A young punk couple dancing at a gig at a club in Sunderland with mohican haircuts © Janina Struk

28-06-1986 - Artists Against Apartheid free music festival Clapham Common London 1986. After a March and Rally in London against apartheid in South Africa artists stage a free concert in support of the Anti-Aparth... © Stefano Cagnoni

28-06-1986 - Peter Gabriel, Artists Against Apartheid free music festival Clapham Common London 1986. After a March and Rally in London against apartheid in South Africa artists stage a free concert in support of... © Stefano Cagnoni

28-06-1986 - Gil-Scott Heron, Artists Against Apartheid free music festival Clapham Common London 1986. After a March and Rally in London against apartheid in South Africa artists stage a free concert in support o... © Stefano Cagnoni

28-06-1986 - Peter Gabriel, Artists Against Apartheid free music festival Clapham Common London 1986. After a March and Rally in London against apartheid in South Africa artists stage a free concert in support of... © Stefano Cagnoni

28-06-1986 - Billy Bragg, Artists Against Apartheid free music festival Clapham Common London 1986. After a March and Rally in London against apartheid in South Africa artists stage a free concert in support of th... © Stefano Cagnoni

28-06-1986 - Hugh Masekela, Artists Against Apartheid free music festival Clapham Common London 1986. After a March and Rally in London against apartheid in South Africa artists stage a free concert in support of... © Stefano Cagnoni

28-06-1986 - Protest against Apartheid in South Africa London 1986 © Stefano Cagnoni

10-04-1986 - Young woman, Nightingale Estate, Hackney, London 1986 © John Sturrock

23-10-1985 - Unveiling of Nelson Mandela statue, Southbank London 1985, sculpted by Ian Walters. ANC President Oliver Tambo and Mandelas eldest daughter Zenani Dlamini © Stefano Cagnoni

23-10-1985 - Unveiling of Nelson Mandela statue, Southbank London 1985, sculpted by Ian Walters. ANC President Oliver Tambo and Mandelas eldest daughter Zenani Dlamini © Stefano Cagnoni

23-10-1985 - Unveiling of Nelson Mandela statue, Southbank London 1985, sculpted by Ian Walters. ANC President Oliver Tambo and Mandelas eldest daughter Zenani Dlamini © Stefano Cagnoni

05-10-1985 - Elderly men who fought with the International Brigade against Franco and Fascists during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's come together to commemorate their comrades 50 years later in London and gi... © Stefano Cagnoni

05-10-1985 - Unveiling of the memorial statue sculpted by Ian Walters to the International Brigade: in honour of those who left Britain & Ireland to fight with the Spanish people against Franco and the Fascists in... © Stefano Cagnoni

10-09-1985 - Boy running. New and old housing, Everton, Liverpool 1985 © John Sturrock

05-09-1985 - Amandla ANC Cultural Ensemble production, London 1985, liberation music against Apartheid in South Africa © NLA

13-08-1985 - Chauffeur serving champaign to the rich Henley Royal Regatta 1985. Dining in the car park © John Sturrock

07-07-1985 - Billy Bragg playing at the Jobs for a Change Festival, Battersea Park, 1985 © Stefano Cagnoni

07-07-1985 - GLC Jobs For A Change music festival held in Battersea Park © Stefano Cagnoni

07-07-1985 - GLC Jobs For A Change music festival held in Battersea Park © Stefano Cagnoni

07-07-1985 - Billy Bragg playing at the GLC Jobs For A Change music festival held in Battersea Park in 1985 © Stefano Cagnoni

07-07-1985 - Billy Bragg playing at the GLC Jobs For A Change music festival held in Battersea Park in 1985 © Stefano Cagnoni

20-06-1985 - In Time Of Strife, Half Moon Theatre London 1985. 7:84 Theatre Company production written by Joe Corrie, a miner when he wrote the play after the 1926 General Strike and the six month lock out which f... © Stefano Cagnoni

20-06-1985 - In Time Of Strife, Half Moon Theatre London 1985. 7:84 Theatre Company production written by Joe Corrie, a miner when he wrote the play after the 1926 General Strike and the six month lock out which f... © Stefano Cagnoni

20-06-1985 - In Time Of Strife, Half Moon Theatre London 1985. 7:84 Theatre Company production written by Joe Corrie, a miner when he wrote the play after the 1926 General Strike and the six month lock out which f... © Stefano Cagnoni

20-06-1985 - In Time Of Strife, Half Moon Theatre London 1985. 7:84 Theatre Company production written by Joe Corrie, a miner when he wrote the play after the 1926 General Strike and the six month lock out which f... © Stefano Cagnoni

06-05-1985 - Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames 1985, May Day festival, Burgess Park, Southwark, London © Peter Arkell

06-05-1985 - Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames 1985, May Day festival, Burgess Park, Southwark, London © Peter Arkell

03-05-1985 - Aboriginal mural protesting against racism, Adelaide, Australia. Aboriginals discovered Cook. To Australian Aborigines it is wrong to suggest that Captain James Cook or any other European discovered A... © Howard Davies

03-05-1985 - Aboriginal mural protesting against racism, Adelaide, Australia. Aboriginals discovered Cook. To Australian Aborigines it is wrong to suggest that Captain James Cook or any other European discovered A... © Howard Davies

13-03-1985 - Max Stafford-Clark artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, London 1985 © Peter Arkell

13-03-1985 - Max Stafford-Clark artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, London 1985 © Peter Arkell

10-02-1985 - The Garden Of England, 7:84 Theatre Company Shaw Theatre, London, 1985 written and performed by the 7:84 Theatre Company and based on the 1984-1985 Miners Strike. (L to R) Andy Smith in panda costume,... © Stefano Cagnoni

10-02-1985 - The Garden Of England, 7:84 Theatre Company Shaw Theatre, London, 1985, written and performed by the 7:84 Theatre Company and based on the 1984-1985 Miners Strike. (L to R) Pip Donaghy, Derek Thompson... © Stefano Cagnoni

10-02-1985 - The Garden Of England, 7:84 Theatre Company, Shaw Theatre, London, 1985 written and performed by the 7:84 Theatre Company and based on the 1984-1985 Miners Strike. Derek Thompson playing Noddy, an NUM... © Stefano Cagnoni

10-02-1985 - The Garden Of England, 7:84 Theatre Company, Shaw Theatre, London, 1985 written and performed by the 7:84 Theatre Company and based on the 1984-1985 Miners Strike. Derek Thompson playing Noddy, an NUM... © Stefano Cagnoni

07-02-1985 - Sir Peter Hall director of the National Theatre 1985 explaining the need for cuts at the theatre © NLA

07-02-1985 - Sir Peter Hall director of the National Theatre 1985 explaining the need for cuts at the theatre © NLA

07-02-1985 - Sir Peter Hall director of the National Theatre 1985 explaining the need for cuts at the theatre © NLA

30-01-1985 - Better Times by Barrie Keeffe, staged at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London 1985. The play tells the story of the 1921 Poplar Rates Revolt. Actor, Kate Williams as Julia Scurr with Larry Dann, playi... © Stefano Cagnoni

30-01-1985 - Better Times written by Barrie Keeffe, staged at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London 1985. The play tells the story of the 1921 Poplar Rates revolt. ~Gordon Kaye playing the Daily Herald photographer... © Stefano Cagnoni

30-01-1985 - Better Times written by Barrie Keeffe, staged at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London 1985. The play tells the story of the 1921 Poplar Rates Revolt. Actors playing the Labour Councillors meeting to m... © Stefano Cagnoni

30-01-1985 - Better Times written by Barrie Keeffe, staged at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London 1985. The play tells the story of the 1921 Poplar Rates Revolt. Councillor Julia Scurr, played by Kate Williams an... © Stefano Cagnoni

30-01-1985 - Better Times written by Barrie Keeffe, staged at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London 1985. The play tells the story of the 1921 Poplar Rates Revolt. Mayor Sam March, played by Donald Morley, addresse... © Stefano Cagnoni

13-12-1984 - Comedian Alexei Sayle benefit gig striking miners 1984 for single miners at Christmas. Armthorpe Miners Welfare, Doncaster, South Yorkshire © John Harris

27-11-1984 - Derek Mahon, Northern Irish poet, London, 1984 © Stefano Cagnoni

25-11-1984 - Folk singer Peggy Seeger, 1984 Miners Strike Here We Go benefit gig in support of the strike, London © Stefano Cagnoni

25-11-1984 - Folk singer and activist, Peggy Seeger, performing at the Here We Go benefit gig in support of the miners strike, London, 1984. © Stefano Cagnoni

20-09-1984 - Miners Strike 1984 Artist painting a mass picket, Yorkshire Main, Edlington © John Sturrock

15-08-1984 - Water mill on the River Stour. © Paul Carter

04-08-1984 - Snapping the snappers. Marcel Marceau, 1984, French mine artist and actor, pointing his imaginary camera at photographers in London. © NLA

14-07-1984 - Dame Edna Everage arriving by Roll Royce car. Bristol. © Paul Box

04-07-1984 - Miners Strike 1984 Childs drawing depicting scabs on the wall of Kersley Food Kitchen, adjacent to Kersley Colliery near Coventry. Don't Speak to Scabs © John Harris

04-07-1984 - Miners Strike Kersley 1984 Childs drawing of Policeman, Don't Talk To Stranger Reflecting the sense of hatred felt by mining families to the massed police presence in their communites. Drawing made by... © John Harris

02-06-1984 - Ken Loach filming of Which Side Are You On? 1984, Film Director standing beside his cameraman during the filming of a documentary about the miners strike. © John Harris

02-06-1984 - Ken Loach filming of Which Side Are You On? 1984, Film Director standing beside his cameraman during the filming of a documentary about the miners strike. © John Harris

02-06-1984 - Ken Loach filming of Which Side Are You On? 1984, Film Director, Ken Loach with one of his film crew during the filming of a documentary about the miners strike. © John Harris

26-05-1984 - Alan Bleasdale speaking, Youth CND rally Coventry 1984 © Stefano Cagnoni

16-05-1984 - Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki rehearsing 1984 the first British performance of Te Deum with the Krakow Symphony Orchestra at the Brighton Festival © Stefano Cagnoni

16-05-1984 - Polish composer Krzystof Pendercki 1984 during a break from rehearsing the first British performance of Te Deum with the Krakow Symphony Orchestra at the Brighton Festival © Stefano Cagnoni

03-04-1984 - Pop group Flying pickets join striking miners, 1984 Drax power station, North Yorkshire, Dave Gittins © Peter Arkell

03-04-1984 - Pop group Flying pickets join striking miners, 1984 Drax power station, North Yorkshire, Dave Gittins © Peter Arkell

06-03-1984 - Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, The Aspern Papers, Theatre Royal London Haymarket 1984 © Peter Arkell

05-01-1984 - Malcolm Storry as Lacenaire, Softcops by Caryl Churchill, 1984 RSC The Barbican Theatre, Hepburn Graham © Stefano Cagnoni

05-01-1984 - Malcolm Storry as Lacenaire, Softcops by Caryl Churchill, 1984 RSC The Barbican Theatre © Stefano Cagnoni

05-01-1984 - Malcolm Storry as Lacenaire, Softcops by Caryl Churchill, 1984 RSC The Barbican Theatre © Stefano Cagnoni

28-10-1983 - Alan Rickman and Leslee Udwin acting in The Grass Widow by Snoo Wilson, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1983 © Stefano Cagnoni

28-10-1983 - Alan Rickman, Tracey Ullman and Ron Cook acting in The Grass Widow, written by Snoo Wilson, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1983 © Stefano Cagnoni

14-10-1983 - Maydays by David Edgar by RSC, The Barbican Theatre, London 1983. Anthony Sher (L) and Bob Peck (R) © Stefano Cagnoni

14-10-1983 - Maydays by David Edgar by RSC, The Barbican Theatre, London 1983. Don Fellows (C) with Anthony Sher (L) behind Lesley Sharp and Alison Steadman (R) © Stefano Cagnoni

14-10-1983 - Maydays by David Edgar by RSC, The Barbican Theatre, London 1983 © Stefano Cagnoni

17-09-1983 - A woman alone waiting for a lift, late at night in a badly lit area of a block of council flats. © Janina Struk

10-08-1983 - 1983: You've either got it, or you haven't. A man walks past an advertising hoarding on the Harrow Road, West London. © Philip Wolmuth

16-07-1983 - Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala. The Eden Lodge pit banner. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 - Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala. The Boldon pit banner. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 - Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala. The Adventure pit banner, one of three pits sunk at Rainton Colliery. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 - Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala. The Chopwell Lodge Red banner, famously bearing the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 - Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. Passing a local shop selling bankrupt and surplus stock. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 - Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. Labour Party leaders, including Tony Benn & Neil Kinnock, wave to the pro... © Stefano Cagnoni