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  • Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Conservative MP, Geoffrey Howe at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England.  His resignation on 1 November 1990 is widely considered by the British press to have precipitated Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's own resignation three weeks later, resulting in the end of her 11 year political career.
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  • Charismatic Conservative MP, Michael Heseltine out campaigning during the 1990 election in the summer of 1990 in south London, England.
    michael_heseltine07-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Charismatic Conservative MP, Michael Heseltine out campaigning during the 1990 election in the summer of 1990 in south London, England.
    michael_heseltine08-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Charismatic Conservative MP, Michael Heseltine out campaigning during the 1990 election in the summer of 1990 in south London, England.
    michael_heseltine09-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher listens to speeches, the last as Prime Minister during the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
    thatcher_head04-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Firefighters assess charred remains damage of the Savoy Theatre fire, on 14th February 1990, in London, England. While the theatre was being renovated in February 1990, a fire gutted the building, except for the stage and backstage areas.
    savoy_fire-14-02-1990.jpg
  • A pedestrian walks past an upturned car, a casualty of the Poll Tax riot, on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. when angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane, on 1st April 1990, in London, England. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon01-01-04-1990.jpg
  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving her last speech as PM at the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
    thatcher_head03-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher listens to speeches, the last as Prime Minister during the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
    thatcher_head02-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving her last speech as PM at the October 1990 Conservative Party Conference, on 11th October 1990, in Blackpool, England. Weeks before being removed by her own colleagues, her fighting spirit and stern expression gives her the reputation of the Iron Lady.
    thatcher_head01-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Secretary of State for Employment and Conservative MP, Michael Howard at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England.
    michael_howard-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Minister of State for Local Government and Conservative MP, Michael Portillo at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England. Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (b 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Member of Parliament, Deputy Conservative Party leader and Cabinet Minister.
    michael_portillo-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Minister of State for Health and Conservative MP, Virginia Bottomley at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England. Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC, DL (née Garnett, born 12 March 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She was raised to the peerage in 2005.
    virginia_bottomley01-11-10-1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Foreign Secretary and Conservative MP, Douglas Hurd MP at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England. Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (b1930) is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.
    douglas_hurd06-11-10-1990.jpg
  • Looking happy but within a few months of being deposed after a leadership challenge, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applauds supporters at the Conservative party conference on 10th October 1990 in Blackpool, England.
    john_major12-10-09-1990.jpg
  • Conservative MP, Lynda Chalker at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England.
    lynda_chalker-11-10-1990.jpg
  • A 1990s Hungarian gentleman snoozes in the shade of trees at the Szechenyi spa hotel, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    budapest_spa-13-06-1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Riot police officers stand firm nearTrafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot07-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Riot police officers stand firm in Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot09-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Displayed on a table at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, peaked caps of the former East German (DDR in German) border police are on sale in orderly rows for the sake of tourists to this German city. The border troops of the German Democratic Republic (Grenztruppen), were a military force of the GDR and the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany. The Border Troops numbered at their peak approximately 47,000 troops and other than the Soviet Union, no other Warsaw Pact country had such a large border guard force. In all, 1,065 persons were killed along the GDR's frontiers and coastline, often by the border guards. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
    DDR_travel02-06_1990.jpg
  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War...
    DDR_travel01-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Young Hungarians wearing formal suits with bow ties carry their McDonalds meals soon after it opened in central Budapest, the first in Hungary, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people022-18-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a pair of hands cup some nuts that go towards the construction of Trabant cars at the car factory in the former East Germany (DDR) where the last Trabants await buyers outside the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR). The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
    trabant_factory-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars go through the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR). The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
    trabant_factory-15-06-1990_1.jpg
  • A shop assistant carries three boxes of Toshiba T1000 Portable Personal Computer laptops in an electronics and tech shop on the Tottenham Court Road, on 3rd March 1990, in London, England. The T1000 was a portable computer manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation from 1987. It had a similar specification to the IBM PC Convertible, with a 4.77 MHz 80C88 processor, 512 kB of RAM, and a monochrome CGA-compatible LCD. Unlike the Convertible, it includes a standard serial port and parallel port, connectors for an external monitor, and a real-time clock.
    toshiba_shop-03-03-1990.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister, newspaper headlines report her departure after being deposed by Conservative Party colleagues, after 11 years as UK premier, on 22nd November 1990, in London, England.
    thatcher_resigns1-22-11-1990.jpg
  • An French elderly lady bends down to find the right shoes for herself among dozens of other pairs in all styles and sizes strewn on the ground in the weekly market, on 11th May 1990, in Calais, France.
    shoe_market-11-05-1990.jpg
  • A lady peers down into the viewfinder of a vintage film camera whilst holidaying on the pier at Bournemouth seaside resort, on 20th October 1990, in Bournemouth, England.
    seaside_people-20-10-1990_1.jpg
  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, peaceful protesters against Margaret Thatcher's Poll Tax policy, gather in Whitehall, on 31st March 1990, in London, England. London, England. Later that day, angry crowds stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon03-01-04-1990.jpg
  • Before it erupts into a full-scale riot, families and peaceful protesters against Margaret Thatcher's Poll Tax policy, gather in Trafalgar Square, on 31st March 1990, in London, England. London, England. Later that day, angry crowds stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_afternoon02-01-04-1990.jpg
  • Using a map of the middle-eastern Gulf region, Major General Alex Harley, Director of Operations during the Gulf War, briefs the media at the Ministery of Defence, on 10th August 1990, in London, England. General Sir Alexander George Hamilton Harley, KBE, CB (born 1941) is now a retired British Army officer and former Adjutant-General to the Forces.
    MoD_breifing-10-08-1990.jpg
  • An elderly couple plan their next journey with the help of local map and guidebook before arriving at the French port of Cherbourg while on board the Seacat service from Portsmouth, on 18th June 1990, Portsmouth, UK.
    map_couple-18-06-1990.jpg
  • Young people drink beers during a fancy dress party in a Liechtenstein village hall, on 8th February 1990, in Gamprin, Liechtenstein.
    liechtenstein_youth-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle works in the courtyard of his dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer03-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle works in the courtyard of his dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer02-08-02-1990.jpg
  • A goat belonging to traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle in the courtyard of a dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer01-08-02-1990.jpg
  • A Hungarian man cycles on the road with a large sack of produce  in a village in rural Hungary, on 18th June 1990, in Hungary.
    hungary_people14-18-06-1990.jpg
  • Bathers enjoy the healing thermal spa waters in the Gellert Hotel in Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people11-18-06-1990.jpg
  • Hungarian gentlemen play chess in the thermal healing spa waters of Budapest's famous Szechenyi thermal bath, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest is especially known for its spas. The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath  (Szechenyi-gyogyfurdo) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74°C/165°F and 77°C/171°F, respectively. The bath can be found in the City Park, and was built in 1913 in Neo-baroque style to the design of Gyozo Czigler.
    hungary_people09-18-06-1990.jpg
  • Hungarian woman shoppers admire the new range of shoes on display in a footwear shop on Vaci utca in central Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people08-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A middle-age husband pours thermal healing spa waters on to his wife in Budapest's famous Szechenyi thermal bath, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest is especially known for its spas. The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath  (Szechenyi-gyogyfurdo) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74°C/165°F and 77°C/171°F, respectively. The bath can be found in the City Park, and was built in 1913 in Neo-baroque style to the design of Gyozo Czigler.
    hungary_people07-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A lady looks unhappy, and a dancer leans backwards while a suited man looks on in a night clun near Buda Castle, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people05-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A young girl holds her mother's shopping basket while she tries on sandals in a department store in central Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people03-18-06-1990.jpg
  • Young Hungarians socialise and kiss beneath a Soviet-era memorial, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people01-18-06-1990.jpg
  • Portrait of an elderly man living in rural France, on 11th November 1990, in Etaples, France.
    french_man-11-05-1990.jpg
  • A portrait of Devon County Farmers Union, Geoff Cleverdon, on 28th May 1990, in Devon, England.
    farmer_portrait-28-05-1990.jpg
  • A young passenger wearing a jumper adorned with Disney characters looks across to the Port of Dover as she arrives on a cross-Channel ferry from France, on 18th June 1990, in Dover, England.
    dover_ferry-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A customs officer holds up a hand to traffic passing through the national border between Liechtenstein and Austria, what the Austrians call a 'Zoll' or 'Zollamt' at Schaanwald, the north-eastern line near the Austrian town of Feldkirch, on 8th February 1990, in Schaanwald, Austria.
    austrian_border-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, two east German women walk past a closed and decaying Pharmacy and photography business where a poster advertising a New Germany weekly newspaper has been attached to a rotting door, on 15th June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR).
    90s_germany-15-06-1990.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a young German woman reads a newspaper at the feet of a Trummerfrau statue (honouring the rubble-clearing women after the war) in Rathauspark, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_12.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a cigarette brand marketing lady  hands out promos for 'Prince of Denmark' and photographs unhappy-looking former east Germans with a Polaroid camera in Leipzig's town square, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_11.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, are the partially-collapsed ballustrade and porch of a semi-derelict German house, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_10.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, the stone decoration on an office building wall has been eaten away by atmospheric pollution, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_9.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a wooden crate of cauliflowers are displayed underneath the prices of other vegetables at a street market in Leipzig in eastern Germany, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_8.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, children play in Marx Engels Platz on an East Berlin shopping precinct roof built during the Communist DDR-era, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany. Marx-Engels-Forum was a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin. It was named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as founders of the Communist movement. The park was created by authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_5.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, pro-Communist Germans carrying Soviet and DDR flags march in Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_4.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, German youths against Isolationism gather outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_2.jpg
  • Captive Brown bears seen in their enclosure at Budapest zoo,<br />
on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    budapest_bears-13-06-1990.jpg
  • 1990s teenage students receive flowers from their parents on the last day of the school term, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    budapest_students-13-06-1990.jpg
  • As a staff member counts coins, 1990s women shoppers gather around the till to pay cash in a Budapest shop, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    budapest_till-13-06-1990.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (the German Democratic Republic), bent street signposts still remain, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    DDR_signpost-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (German Democratic Republic), a 1990s tin of Deutschmark and Pfennig coins are on a cauliflower market stall, on 15th June 1990, in Leipzig, Eastern Germany. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    deutschmarks_tin02-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (German Democratic Republic), a brown coal delivery man stops to shovel his polluting fossil fuel into local cellars, on 15th June 1990, in Aue, Saxony. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    GDR_coleman-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (the German Democratic Republic), the wreckage of a Trabant car still remains, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    GDR_trabant01-15-06-1990.jpg
  • An elderly 1990s Polish lady struggles along a street and past a cafe whose walls are crumbling - the heritage of polluted communist decades, on 15th July 1990, in Krakow, Poland. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    poland_elderly-15-07-1990.jpg
  • An elderly 1990s lady tries on a left show while standing over a choice of dozens of single items of footwear, in a daily market, on 11th May 1990, in Calais, France. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    shoe_market-11-05-1990.jpg
  • Old Soviet parade ground murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany (ex-GDR/DDR), on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_3.jpg
  • Old Soviet parade ground illustrations show self-defence positions for Russian soldiers in the former Russian army camp in occupied East Germany (ex-GDR/DDR), on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_2.jpg
  • The clean-up begins the morning after the Poll Tax riot,  on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot04-01-04-1990.jpg
  • A couple kiss near police officers in the middle of the Poll Tax riot in the UK capital, on 31st March 1990, in Trafalgar Square, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
    poll_tax_riot03-31-03-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a Trabant car sits wrecked on the corner of Mollstrasse and Hans-Beimler-Strasse in east Berlin (former DDR), on 1st June 1990, in Berlin, Germany. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an elderly lady is handed her change after buying some cauliflowers at a market stall, on 1st June 1990, in Leipzig, eastern Germany (former DDR).
    DDR_market_stall-01-06-1990.jpg
  • A portrait of Australian-born, Clive James as he is recognised and photographed by a Japanese tourist, on 20th January 1990 in Cambridge UK. Clive James AO CBE FRSL (1939-2019) was an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1962.
    clive_james01-20-01-1990.jpg
  • A portrait of Dan Pearson (b 1964), an English garden designer, landscape designer, journalist and television presenter in the summer of 1990 on a London roofttop garden of his own creation, England. He is an expert in naturalistic perennial planting.
    dan-pearson01-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Douglas Hurd MP feeds ducks with his family near the family home in the summer of 1990 near Oxford. Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (b1930) is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.
    douglas_hurd02-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Douglas Hurd MP climbs into his ministerial car in the summer of 1990 near Oxford. Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (b1930) is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.
    douglas_hurd01-01-06-1990.jpg
  • A portrait of British holiday camp pioneer, Sir Fred Pontin, in the summer of 1990 at his London home, England. Sir Frederick William Pontin (1906 - 2000) had a successful career in the city's Stock Exchange. During World War II, he was involved in helping to establish hostels for construction workers and based on this experience, he decided to move into the holiday camp business after the war. He formed a company to buy an old disused camp at Brean Sands near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in 1946. This was the start of the company known as Pontins and the popular Pontins Southport and Pontins Prestatyn resort. His catchphrase was "book early."
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  • English writer, Jeffrey Barnard drinks at lunchtime in his favoured Coach And Horses pub, in the summer of 1990 in Soho, London, England. Jeffrey Bernard (1932 – 1997) was a British journalist, best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in The Spectator magazine, and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He became associated with the louche and bohemian atmosphere that existed in London's Soho district. He was later immortalised in the comical play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse.
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  • British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's political career of 11 years ends emotionally on the steps of 10 Downing Street after being deposed in a leadership challenge, on 28th November 1990 in London, England. Standing close behind her is Thatcher's husband and lifelong confidente, Dennis.
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  • Two people of east Asian-descent look at Toshiba laptops displayed in a computer specialist in Tottenham Court Road - the centre for technology, gadgets and computing in central London. It is 1990 and the smaller, more portable laptop market is just taking off. The man takes notes on paper, writing prices, technical  specifications and offers for these Japanese-made items. Vying for sales with Toshiba in this particular window is Psion, Epson and Canon - all players in the early 1990s.
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  • An aerial landscape at the Dartford Bridge crossing of dated 1990 before the completion of London's newest Thames river crossing - the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. Already used are the toll booths taking much-needed toll fees from motorists as they emerge from the pre-existing Dartford Tunnel (1963). The Bridge is a 137 m (449 ft) high and 812 m (2,664 ft) long cable-stayed road bridge across the River Thames in south east England. It was opened in 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II. It is the southbound element of the Dartford Crossing, a strategic congestion charged road crossing the half mile wide river east of London. It was built alongside two earlier tunnels under the Thames, which now form the northbound element of the crossing. Upon completion, the bridge was Europe's largest cable-supported bridge.
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  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the 'Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government', the Workers' Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary's transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
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  • British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's political career of 11 years ends emotionally on the steps of 10 Downing Street after being deposed in a leadership challenge, on 28th November 1990 in London, England. Standing close behind her is Thatcher's husband and lifelong confidente, Dennis.
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  • On the day that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister, newspaper headlines report her departure after being deposed by Conservative Party colleagues, after 11 years as UK premier, on 22nd November 1990, in London, England.
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  • As the surf splashes around him, a young man stands on iron railings and wipes his face, on 20th October 1990, in Bournemouth, England.
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  • As the flames of a fire strted deliberately burns in the background, police officer listens to his radio during disturbances about the Poll Tax, the controversial property tax imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government and which ultimately brought about her downfall weeks later, on 20th October 1990, in London, England.
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  • A soldier with the Hungarian army on ceremonial duties in central Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
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  • A middle-age husband pours thermal healing spa waters on to his wife in Budapest's famous Szechenyi thermal bath, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest is especially known for its spas. The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath  (Szechenyi-gyogyfurdo) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74°C/165°F and 77°C/171°F, respectively. The bath can be found in the City Park, and was built in 1913 in Neo-baroque style to the design of Gyozo Czigler.
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  • Hungarian spa customers enjoy warm pavement and thermal healing spa waters on to his wife in Budapest's famous Széchenyi thermal bath, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest is especially known for its spas. The Szechenyi Medicinal Bath  (Szechenyi-gyogyfurdo) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74°C/165°F and 77°C/171°F, respectively. The bath can be found in the City Park, and was built in 1913 in Neo-baroque style to the design of Gyozo Czigler.
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  • A portrait of both British and French customs officials during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, England. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, a van drives through a cold early morning central Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, riot police tower over a young German girl outside Berlin Cathedral, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, German youths gather at a war memorial, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • A 1990s poster for the AIDS virus, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A visitor to Budapest zoo reaches out with food scraps to a captive elephant, whose enclosure has sharp spikes around its moat, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
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  • 1990s shop staff prepares a recently-killed fish in a Budapest store, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While her pet spaniel plays outside, a 1990s resident of a Budapest housing estate makes a call in a phone kiosk,<br />
on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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