It’s difficult to explain how much the world has changed in 25 years — and for the better. Those who lived through December 1981 would be well served to pause and give thanks for the differences. In ...

COMMENTARY: Forty years ago, Soviet communists tried to turn out the lights. But like a candle in the White House window, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II and the people of Poland kept a flicker of hope ...

Christmas Day 1981 - Swansea City were fighting it out at the top of Division One, Human League were number one in the charts with Don't You Want Me, and the Rubik's Cube was the best-selling present.

Margaret Thatcher's 1981 Christmas card list gives an insight into the way Britain's view of the world has changed over 30 years. Foreign heads of state who received seasonal greetings from Thatcher ...

Here is President Ronald Reagan's letter to wife Nancy on Dec. 25, 1981, their first Christmas in the White House. Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney read it at Friday's funeral service for ...

On Christmas Eve 1981 the snow lay three inches thick across the Potteries. It wasn't the Slush Puppy stuff, either – it was proper, deep snow. In fact, we were in the grip of the record-breaking, ...

Christmas Day 1981 - Swansea City were fighting it out at the top of Division One, Human League were number one in the charts with Don't You Want Me, and the Rubik's Cube was the best-selling present.