The 1980S

This series is each devoted to a decade of British life and contains
around 300 photographs which were hand-picked by PA Photos' own archivists.
Most have lain unseen since they were first used as news pictures and each
image has been scanned especially, many from glass plates, to ensure the
best possible quality of reproduction. These photos tell a fascinating
story: alongside the major events that constitute formal history are found
the smaller things that had significance for ordinary people at the time.
These cameras have recorded for posterity everything in their view and each
picture tells an eloquent tale, of occurrences big and small, which have
shaped the people and the face of Britain today.PA Photos is the
photography arm of the PA Group, which also owns the The Press Association,
the UK's national news agency. Established in the late 19th Century, the PA
has been capturing editorial photography for 140 years, resulting in an
extraordinary archive of over 15 million images recording British life over
more than a century.