Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Britain, Sport and the 1980s

A social history of 1980s Britain, told through the sport of the time. Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham''s Ashes and the Brixton riots; the Moscow Olympics and the miners'' strike; the Crucible Theatre and the Falklands - to explore how we got to where we are now. Discover how sport became fully entwined in our national story; how sporting heroes were made, and destroyed; how ''wars'' were fought on the pitch; and how sport responded to - and drove cultural change in - our society. From Sebastian Coe to Margaret Thatcher, John Barnes to the ZX Spectrum, Martina Navratilova to Section 28, Everybody Wants to Rule the World speaks to our treasured memories of eighties sports while also throwing light on where things went deeply wrong. In so doing it tells nothing less than the story of how British sport came into the modern era.

About the author

Roger Domeneghetti is a senior lecturer in journalism at Northumbria University. His first book, From the Back Page to the Front Room: Football's Journey Through the English Media, was shortlisted for the 2015 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History, and received widespread critical praise.

Prior to this, he worked as a journalist for more than 20 years in both print and new media. He continues to work as a freelancer for a variety of publications including The Blizzard, The New European, BBC History Magazine, the TLS, Wisden Cricket Monthly and The NightWatchman.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Domeneghetti, Domeneghetti Roger
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781529114843
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-1484-3
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Regional & national history, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, history of sport, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, History of other geographical groupings and regions