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Images of a Decade

Prince Charles meets community members at the Madeley Centre in Derby.

Residents of Pybus Street in Derby put out the bunting for the Queen Mother's 80th birthday celebrations in July, 1980.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club - celebrations after winning the Sunday League V Essex.

Cadley Hill Pit, Swadlincote, photographed in 1987.

The 1980s refers to the years between 1980 and 1989. This decade is sometimes referred to as "the Me decade" and "the Greed decade", reflecting the economic and social climate.

The word "yuppie" entered the language, referring to the well-publicised rise of a new middle class within the upper economic strata.

It was a decade of tremendous change in world politics and technological advancement: Satellite company Sky went up and the Berlin Wall came down (1989).

Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister for the whole of the decade. Her period in power lasted from 1979 to 1990.

Other key events included:

Ronald Reagan was elected as American President in 1981. He stayed in power until 1989. The Solidarity movement arose in Poland in 1981 and eventually led to the fall of communism in that country. Mikhail Gorbachev introduced Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union in 1986-1989 to eventually reform communism. The World Wide Web was invented in 1989. The Tiananmen Square Massacre took place in communist China in June 1989. CDs were introduced in 1983 - the same year that the first hand-held mobile phone appeared. Sir Clive Sinclair introduced the C5 transport vehicle in 1985, but it was a massive flop and a commercial disaster. An accident at Chernobyl nuclear reactor in April 1986, became the world's worst ever nuclear accident.

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