Fifty years ago this month, Harold Wilson returned as Britain’s prime minister after winning the first 1974 election against a backdrop of paralyzing strikes, soaring inflation and terrorist bombings.

“You need to use your imagination,” says Otto Saumarez Smith, an architectural historian. The Oasis swimming pool and leisure centre in Swindon closed in 2020 and is now drawing graffiti taggers and ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

He was the frontman of the rock band Cockney Rebel, which landed several hits on the British charts in the 1970s. By Orlando Mayorquín Steve Harley, the 1970s British rock star who topped Britain’s ...

Carol McNicoll, who has died aged 81, was a pioneering studio potter whose witty, postmodern work transformed the ceramics scene in 1970s Britain. She belonged to a cohort of women who studied at the ...

General Motors is now co-owned by the American taxpayer and labor unions. As a Briton, I find this development astonishing. It repeats the mistakes of the 1970s Labor government, which essentially ...

Rachel Reeves has been urged to drastically cut public spending in order to avoid Britain needing a 1970s-style bailout. The Chancellor was warned by leading economists this weekend that her looming ...

Life could be bleak for women in 1970s Britain, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. They had "unequal pay, no statutory maternity rights, no legal right to say 'no' to their husbands in the bedroom".