I am studying Billy Elliot at school and the miners strike is the context for the film. It seems like a fairly tumultuous period in the history of modern England, and i was wondering how significant it was to the people of the time. Was it something that was just on the TV or was it causing large scale social divisions in the classes of Britain?
In the UK miners strike of 1984 I remember having the greatest Christmas of my young life due to all the wonderful presents. I was told by my parents years later they were donated from the former Soviet Bloc countries I was wondering if anyone remembers this.
so i just picked up a mint copy of the original secret wars from 1984-85 and i wanted to know what do yall use to protect said comics ?
Hello All,
In the mid 80s (either '84 or '85) my parents took me to an annual "Home Show" held in Toronto, Canada.
It's a trade show for any vendor that sells things related to the home.
I was 8 or 9 and my parents left me to wander the show on my own. This was something that was common in the 80s. We must have agreed on a time and place to meet later on.
Like a magnet, I was drawn to the Apple booth and spent the entire time there.
They had a Mac (must have been a 128K) on display (I don't remember seeing any Apple IIs) and I spent a long time playing with MacPaint. I remember a sales rep showed me the basics and just left me alone.
The booth was not very busy and I recall him and other sales people talking to other show attendees as they walked in, but I was never asked to step aside for them to give anyone else a demo.
Flood fill and pattern brushes were a huge innovation back then and I spent an embarrassing amount of time just fiddling with the software.
When it was time for me to go find my parents, he gave me a piece of Apple swag (I'm pretty sure he also used an ImageWriter to print out my final masterpiece).
The swag was a 2D puzzle. The pieces were all different geometric shapes (I think they were intended to reflect shapes you could make in MacPaint). The puzzle aspect was that the pieces were meant to be rearranged to form different bigger shapes. I don't remember what they were. I'm guessing a square and rectangle. Maybe a triangle.
I don't remember what happened to that puzzle. I must have lost it or given it to someone else.
Over the years I've looked for examples of it on the Internet but never managed to find a picture. I'm pretty sure one of the pieces was stamped with an Apple logo or text saying "Apple Computer Company". I think the pieces were yellow or orange. Maybe tan (somehow, all my memories of the 70s and 80s are in sepia tone).
Does anyone remember seeing Apple swag like this? Or know of a site that catalogs Apple swag?
I know that this can be a massively controversial topic as it certainly has a political element to it, in the UK it can still flare up arguments easily. Therefore I want to make it absolutely clear I just want to know if this particular thing is true or not, if so are there more examples and if not how might she have got this impression? Sources would be great and some further reading to make the lockdown go faster would be even better.
Many thanks in advance:)
I want to learn more about the strikes under thatcher, only books I've seen online have reviews saying they're from a very pro-thatch perspective. Anyone know of a leftist account of the strike? Thanks
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