The '80s Actual blog examines the decade's news stories - from the emergence of Lady Diana Spencer into the public eye in 1980, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. If you read it here, I think you can rest assured it's accurate, though I can take no responsibility for the newspaper reports from the decade! This blog is based on actual memories, media footage (thank you, YouTube!) and snippets of newspaper and magazine articles from the 1980s. Perhaps it's just comforting to have a decade people can scapegoat and declare 'HORRIBLE'?

There is a huge drive in the media and on-line to negate the 1980s, to attribute that decade's innovations and fond memories to other decades, and basically to present it as a completely vapid ten years, not worthy of examination. If on-line encyclopedia articles which state that pop culture of 1983 is really 1977, or similar, have you wishing for reality, then '80s Actual is for you. If you look at certain '70s fan sites and think a lot of the material written about is actually from the '80s, you are almost certainly correct. If you sat watching the BBC's 'I Love The 1970s' and exclaimed over items being shown 'I could swear that was 1968!' or 'Wasn't that 1981?' chances are you were right. The '80s Actual blog is designed to be an antidote to all those television shows and on-line articles of recent years which examine pop culture - and frequently get it hopelessly wrong!

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