History > UK > Northern Ireland > The Troubles   1960s-1990s

12 October 1984

Brighton hotel bombing

Conservative Party conference

Margaret Thatcher,

husband Denis and friend and aide Cynthia Crawford

leave Brighton’s Grand Hotel after the IRA bomb attack,

12 October 1984

Photograph: John Downing

Getty Images

The photography of John Downing

The photojournalist,

who visited Chernobyl with Kim Willsher,

captured award-winning images

during his time

as one of 64 Daily Express staff photographers

in the halcyon days of Fleet Street

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Sat 15 Jun 2019    17.30 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2019/jun/15/
the-photography-of-john-downing

Cabinet survives IRA hotel blast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Brighton_hotel_bombing

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2019/jun/15/
the-photography-of-john-downing

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/22/
brighton-1984-bomb-may-have-exposed-rescuers-to-asbestos

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2014/oct/03/
brighton-bombing-grand-hotel-tory-conservative-conference-1984

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/03/
thatcher-labour-miners-enemy-within-brighton-bomb

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/03/
ira-brighton-bomb-talks-anglo-irish-agreement 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/oct/16/bartons-britain-brighton

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2009/oct/13/brighton-bombing-magee

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2009/oct/13/
brighton-bomb-margaret-thatcher

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1984/oct/13/past.davidhearst1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/
newsid_2531000/2531583.stm

Patrick Magee / the 'Brighton bomber'    1984-1986

https://www.theguardian.com/fromthearchive/
story/0,12269,1235581,00.html

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