Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes.

Other similar terms are the " chattering classes " ( coined in England in the 1980s ) and " latte liberal ".

* The Enemy ( UK punk band ), a 1980s punk band from Derby, England

In contrast, film theoreticians in England began integrating critical theory based perspectives drawn from psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, and eventually these ideas gained hold within the American scholarly community in the later 1970s and 1980s.

It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre.

Armani of Italy was a major influence on men's shoe design in the 1960s – 1980s until they returned to the larger proportions of its forebears, the welt-constructed Anglo-American dress shoe originally created in Edwardian England.

In England, Pato Banton explored his Caribbean roots humorous and political toasting and Ranking Roger of the Second Wave or Two-Tone ska revival band the Beat from the 1980s did Jamaican toasting over music that blended ska, pop, and some punk influences.

In the 1980s, Sting and Summers became tax exiles and moved to Ireland ( Sting to Roundstone in Galway, and Summers to Kinsale in County Cork ) while Copeland, an American, remained in England.

During the late 1980s he was living in England and sharing a house with West Surrey Racing team mate Allan McNish.

Maud Foster Mill The seven-storeyed Maud Foster Tower Windmill, completed in 1819, by millwrights Norman & Smithson of Kingston upon Hull for Issac and Thomas Reckitt, is currently the tallest operating windmill in England ( 80 ft / 24. 4 metres to the top of the cap ), following extensive restoration during the 1980s and early 1990s and is now a working museum.

With a girth of 6. 86 m and a height of 40 m, the elm on Great Saling Green, Great Saling, near Braintree, Essex, identified by R. H. Richens ( 1983 ) as an Ulmus × hollandica hybrid, was reputed to be the largest elm in England, before succumbing to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1980s.

Going back to the early 1980s, Brookfield has been radically transformed from a colonial New England town to a major shopping and consumer goods destination.

He was signed by Oriental Star Agencies, Birmingham, England, in the early 1980s.

Durham Castle in England, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the 1980s

Although his upbringing in England had inculcated a love of English literature and of cricket, during the Thatcherite 1980s he found it impossible to support the English cricket team.

One of his England shirts from the 1980s is in St Neots Museum

Although he eventually rose to the captaincy of the England cricket team during the 1980s, he is best known for being one of the most stylish left-handed batsmen of the modern era.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for Allmusic, described specifically Culture Club as a new wave band and generically as the most successful pop / rock group in America and England during the 1980s, adding that, " By 1986, the group had broken up, leaving behind several singles that rank as classics of the new wave era ".

By the end of the 1980s, all of the grammar schools in Wales and most of those in England had closed or become comprehensive.

John Smith's became well-known for a series of highly successful " No Nonsense "- themed television advertising campaigns, featuring the dour Yorkshireman " Arkwright " during the 1970s and 1980s ( shown only in the South of England ), followed by the comedians Jack Dee during the 1990s and Peter Kay since 2002.

Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were a 1980s and early 1990s novelty pop music act from Rotherham, Yorkshire, England.

Robertson was born in London, England, contrary to information in early 1980s press releases that reported his birthplace as Cairo, Egypt.

During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands from England ( Pagan Altar, Witchfinder General ), the United States ( Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Trouble ) and Sweden ( Candlemass, Count Raven ) defined doom metal as a distinct genre.

During the early-mid 1980s, bands from England and the United States contributed much to the formation of doom metal as a distinct genre.

Kaspar Hauser was taken as the name of an alternative rock band based in Amherst, Massachusetts in the early 1980s, as well as an experimental musician from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England.

Suggestions during the early 1980s that the Prince of Wales might become the Governor-General came to nothing due to the constitutional difficulty that would be created if Prince Charles became King.

For example, during the 1980s, a group calling themselves " Meibion Glyndŵr " claimed responsibility for the burning of English holiday homes in Wales.

The Glebe estate in Glebe, New South Wales was squatted in the 1960s and 1970s, and had an extensive influx of squatters in the 1980s.

These recommendations were acted upon and by the mid-to-late 1980s, when the area had become largely derelict it was redeveloped as a pedestrian and tourist precinct as an initiative of then New South Wales Minister for Public Works, Laurie Brereton.

During the 1980s a number of official events in Cathedral life took place: in 1981, the Prince of Wales visited to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Consecration of the Cathedral ; and on Maundy Thursday 1982, Queen Elizabeth II distributed the Royal Maundy at the Cathedral.

" Penman lives in New Jersey, and in the early 1980s moved to Wales to research her second book, Here Be Dragons.

The scores of Iron Age and Roman coinage and artefact discoveries, and excavations by the Dyfed Archaeological Trust under the direction of Heather James at Carmarthen ( Maridunum ) in the 1980s point convincingly to significant Roman penetration to this westernmost part of Wales.

Popular bands to have emerged from Wales have included the Beatles-nurtured power pop group Badfinger in the 1960s, Man and Budgie in the 1970s and The Alarm in the 1980s.

* Steve Jones ( rugby player born 1951 ) ( 1951 – 2007 ), Wales international rugby union player of the 1980s

* Staff Jones ( born 1959 ), Wales international rugby union player of the 1980s

Edmunds recorded less frequently after the mid 1980s, living in Wales in semi-retirement, but occasionally touring.

Beginning in the 1980s, the Church in Wales embarked on an increasingly open stand on various issues including economic justice, ordination of women, and inclusion of homosexual people.

The origin of the scheme dates back to a visit by the then Secretary of State for Wales Nicholas Edwards Conservative MP for Pembrokeshire to the largely-derelict Cardiff docklands in the early 1980s.

Thus, without widening, traffic would be even worse than it is, contributing even more pollution, something which occurred in Sydney, Australia, during the New South Wales state government's " No Freeways " era in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Smith was an advocate for a criminal code of England and Wales, working on a draft criminal code in the early 1980s, which was adopted by the Law Commission in 1989.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the New South Wales Rugby Football League ( NSWRFL ) was looking to expand its Sydney-based premiership into other areas of the state.

From the 1980s until his candidacy for Federal Parliament, Cobb was active in, and spent three years as President of, the New South Wales Farmers Association, a lobby group representing farmers and rural and regional communities.

The town once had a railway station, operated by the State Rail Authority of New South Wales but with the demise of country rail travel in the 1980s, the passenger services were replaced by a coach service run by CountryLink.

By the time of the Miners ' strike in the 1980s, Maerdy was the location of one of the last working mines in the south Wales valleys, and the pictures of the returning miners once the strike was resolved was one of the defining moments of late 20th century Welsh history.

Gary Pearce was one of the outstanding outside halves in Wales during the early 1980s, playing for Laugharne, Bridgend, Llanelli and Wales, before turning professional with Hull KR.

In the late 1980s the New South Wales State Government perceived that the Sydney City Council was insufficiently committed to some major infrastructural projects such as the monorail and the redevelopment of Darling Harbour.

Several New South Wales Rugby League premiership clubs had attempted to lure Wally Lewis south during the 1980s, including Manly-Warringah which came closest to contracting him in 1986, but he signed with the Brisbane Broncos as inaugural captain of the side upon their inception in 1988.