Nov 17, 2025 | in-depth essay
Lorna Lawrence Conservative Party – Margaret Thatcher NOP Political, Social, Economic Review Issue no.75 1989 May To mark the 10th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s election as Prime Minister, NOP was commissioned by the Daily Mail to conduct a...
Nov 14, 2025 | Social history, Stories
“Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!” Back in the 1980s, this announcement prompted trend-loving consumers to flood to wine warehouses, off-licences and supermarkets around Britain every November, keen to pick up the first bottles of the latest Beaujolais vintage. The...
Oct 15, 2025 | in-depth essay
Ben Clements Ben Clements is Associate Professor in Politics, in the School of History, Politics and International Relations. University of Leicester. His research interests include British public opinion towards foreign and defence policy in the post-war period. He...
Oct 10, 2025 | Brands, Stories
Homebase featured on our High Streets (or more often Retail Parks) for over 40 years, but the name has now disappeared. The BBC Radio 4 programme: Toast covered Homebase recently: Sliced Bread – Toast – Homebase – BBC Sounds AMSR can track the...
Oct 8, 2025 | Brands, Research methods and industry insights, Stories
The news of the sad death of Jilly Cooper brings to mind the report in the Archive on the Sunday Times and other quality newspaper circulation trends in the sixties. This was illustrated by a hand-drawn chart, as this was before the invention of Powerpoint. As can be...
