Though it seemed like music for the inner cities, 2-Tone sought to take its message of inclusion to young people in less racially mixed small towns and rural areas too.
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This Town echoes the ways in which music is forged by its social context, while shaping and defining the lives of the people who make it.
The strike saw different political factions uniting, which eventually led to a more collaborative form of politics in Wales.
Cabinet Office papers expose Thatcher’s anxiety over the famous book, and the difference between governing in the 1980s and the modern information age.
Their line up of black and white musicians was a mission statement for a fractured nation, while Hall’s doleful vocals starkly illustrated the politics of disillusionment.
