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A Vivid Journey Back to the 1980s

Geoff Riley

15th January 2009

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A (super) large hat tip to Andy Amery from Thomas Rotherham College for flagging up this brilliant series of three You Tube Video clips from a Granada documentary in the early 1980s.

Part 1: Click here

Part 2: Click here

Part 3: Click here

Andy writes that

“I showed these to my students last week and they loved it. It is a timely reminder of unemployment in the 1980’s and the impact of unemployment on individuals and families.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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