Gordon Burn

Issue 2.4 - Special Issue "Thatcher's Legacies" Previous Issues

The Allure of the 1980s

Christopher Vardy July 21, 2013 1 Comment 1980s 1984-85 miners' strike Anthony Cartwright Cathi Unsworth contemporary British history contemporary fiction David Peace Denise Mina dystopia End of History Gordon Burn Irvine Welsh literature Nineteen Eighty Three nostalgia post-industrial landscapes retro-memory Rubik's cubes Skagboys Thatcherism Trainspotting trauma

When we remember, represent or consume the recent past, we often do so through the alluring prism of nostalgia. In Ali Smith’s short story ‘astute, fiery, luxurious’…

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Issue 2.4 - Special Issue "Thatcher's Legacies" Previous Issues

Gordon Burn and Mrs T

Rhona Gordon July 21, 2013 No Comments 1980s power fashion Alan Hollinghurst Anthony Hope Born Yesterday contemporary literature Damien Hirst Elaine Scarry For the Love of God Gordon Brown Gordon Burn Iron Lady James Graham Madeleine McCann Margaret Thatcher's funeral New Labour Peter Morgan Philip Hensher Richard Schickel The Line of Beauty Tony Blair

One of the strangest, and most recurrent, observations about Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was the number of celebrity mourners, including, but not limited to, Katherine Jenkins, Joan Collins, Jeremy Clarkson, Terry Wogan and Shirley Bassey…

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