Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s (112 page)

urban population
80–1

urban regeneration
97–9
,
371–3

Ure, Midge
336–8

Uruguay
133

US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
219

Utley, T. E.
70

van der Rohe, Mies
270
,
272
,
300

Variety
258–9

VAT
39
,
54

Veinticinco de Mayo
(Argentine carrier)
150
,
152

Venturi, Robert
272

Venturi-Scott Brown
272

Victoria and Albert Museum
225–6
,
269

video nasties
260–1

Vinen, Richard
47

Virgin Group
291
,
399

Visage
284

Viz
251

wage restraint
17–18
,
19–20
,
51

wages
18

Wakeham, John
356

Wakeman, Rick
278

Waldegrave, William
439

Walden, Brian
334

Wales
11
,
25–6
,
428
,
475
;
see also
Plaid Cymru

Walker, Jack
413

Walker, Peter
63
,
64
,
76
,
179
,
333
,
343
,
345
,
356
,
357

Wall, Pat
111

Wall Street
388
,
391
,
402

Wall Street
(film)
229
,
311
,
412

Wall Street Journal
14

Walsh, Martyn
29

Walters, Alan
60
,
450
,
451

Wapping print workers strike
360–71
,
376

War Game, The
(TV programme)
210

War on Want
335

Ware, Martyn
277
,
286

Warrenpoint, County Down
99

Warrington by-election
128

Warsaw Pact
222
,
461

Watkin, David
263

Watkins, Alan
25

wealth
409–12
,
412–13
,
416–17

Webber, Andrew Lloyd
230

Weighell, Sid
38

Weinberger, Caspar
146–7

welfare dependency
467–8

Welland, Colin
255

Weller, Paul
298

West Falkland
156

Westland helicopters
438–9
,
452
,
453

Westwood, Bill
333

White, Gordon
398–9

Whitehouse, Mary
32
,
237
,
327

Whitelaw, Willie
63
,
64
,
76
,
91
,
94
,
144
,
235
,
239
,
327
,
426
,
438
,
450
,
457

Wickham, Julyan
264

Wigan
84–5

Williams, Shirley
108
,
110–11
,
113
,
114–21
,
129
,
142
,
174
,
177

Willis, Norman
357–8
,
368

Willsman, Peter
112

Wilshire, David
330

Wilson, Harold
6
,
7
,
10
,
17–18
,
104
,
116
,
193
,
234

Wilson, Tony
299–300
,
308
,
310

Winter of Discontent
18
,
19–24
,
38
,
39
,
52
,
106
,
377

Wish Me Luck
(TV programme)
250

Withnail & I
(film)
259

Woman’s Own
311–12

women: divorce
313
,
315
; employment and the professions
340
; family breakdown
95
,
313–14
; feminism, Thatcher and
46
; higher education
339–40
; ordination of
331–2
; single mothers
314

Woodward, Rear Admiral Sandy
138
,
139
,
150–1
,
164

Worcester, Bob
7

World Cup (football)
26
,
485

World in Action
(TV programme)
82

Worsthorne, Peregrine
69
,
70
,
417

Wragg, Ted
416

Wyatt, Woodrow
66

Yarmouth
, HMS
158

Yazoo
279

Yes Minister
(TV programme)
254

Yes, Prime Minister
(TV programme)
254

Yom Kippur War
13

York, Peter
414–15

Young, Hugo
370
,
410
,
469

Young, Lord
390
,
457

Young British Artists (YBAs)
234

Young Businessman of the Year
74

Younger, George
438
,
439
,
458

Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP)
86

Youth Training Scheme (YTS)
86

yuppies
258
,
416–18

ZTT
280
,
281
,
292