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This autumn sees the launch of a major new book and exhibition devoted to examining the multiplicities of photography during 1980s Britain. Peter Dench finds out more 1980s Britain. A payload of ...

After weeks of heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf, Britain said Thursday that one of its naval escorts had prevented Iranian vessels from blocking a British-flagged tanker. The tanker was ...

Britain’s managerial class increasingly resembles that of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. They know that change is coming, but they’re doing their utmost to ignore the fact as best they can, for ...

A teacher faces difficult choices in "Blue Jean," the first feature from filmmaker Georgia Oakley. The story takes place in 1980s England, but our critic Bob Mondello says it could easily be set in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Britain rose by 5.5 percent in the past year and are at their highest levels since the 1980s, health authorities said on Tuesday. The Health Protection ...

The cover of "Jamaica Road" beside author Lisa Smith. (Courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf) Deborah Becker speaks with British Jamaican author Lisa Smith about her debut novel "Jamaica Road." It centers ...

A debut trailer has arrived for I Swear, a new British film set for cinema screens this October. It tells the true story of a Tourette’s sufferer growing up in 1980s Britain. Diagnosed with Tourette’s ...

The title character in Blue Jean, the debut feature by writer-director Georgia Oakley, is a lesbian gym teacher on a journey of self acceptance in Margaret Thatcher's England. A teacher faces ...

* Health authorities say vigilance needed as TB cases rise * Most casts in urban city areas, 39 percent in London LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Cases of tuberculosis rose in Britain last year and the ...