Roger Domeneghetti
27 July 2021
The darker side of Britain’s golden summer
Images of Ian Botham with his bat aloft and the pageantry of the Royal Wedding have created a popular memory of 1981 as a summer of national pride for Britain. But the reality was quite different
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13 February 2021
The ultimate coin toss… the day Britain went decimal
Fifty years ago Britain underwent an overnight switch to decimal currency. Roger Domeneghetti reports on how it came about, and why its effects still echo in British and European relations.
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13 August 2020
Villa’s visionary: The manager with the short spell and long legacy
29 September 2018
Why England doesn’t have its own L’Equipe, Gazzetto dello Sport, or Marca
15 June 2018
The year the world switched on: how the 1966 World Cup kicked off football’s TV revolution
