Raymond Briggs
1 of 10 portraits by Duncan Fraser
© Duncan Fraser
Raymond Briggs
by Duncan Fraser
resin print, 1982
10 1/4 in. x 7 in. (260 mm x 177 mm)
Purchased, 1983
Photographs Collection
NPG x20064
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ecclesshare, Julia, Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers, 2002 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 15 May to 26 August 2002), p. 97
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers (15 May 2002 - 26 August 2002)
Events of 1982back to top
Current affairs
Unemployment hits 3.6 million in the UK, with one in eight people out of work. The crisis came about as a result of industrial modernisation and restructuring. As a result those out of work were referred to as 'Maggie's millions'.Charles and Diana have their first child, Prince William, who becomes the second in line for the throne.
Art and science
Richard Attenborough releases his biopic Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley as the lead. The film was an Anglo-Indian production, featuring a record-breaking 300,000 extras.The Barbican Arts Centre is opened featuring a concert hall, theatres, cinema screens and an art gallery. In 2003 it was voted London's ugliest building in a BBC poll.
The Thames Barrier opens to protect London from floods due to rising sea levels.
International
Argentina occupies the Falkland Islands beginning the Falklands War. Britain retaliated, and after three months of fighting at sea and on land won back the islands. Following the British victory opposition grew in Argentina towards the military government, while in Britain a wave of patriotism helped Margaret Thatcher to win the general election the following year.Comments back to top
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Duncan Fraser
01 December 2018, 14:36
The cardboard cut-out in the foreground, which was part of a marketing display, pictured Fungus the Bogeyman, the eponymous protagonist of Briggs's 1977 book. There had recently been an exhibition about the creation of that book in the appropriately named village of Rottingdean.