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First Time on Television! 1970s Movies Make Their TV Debut

First Time on Television! 1970s Movies Make Their TV Debut

Before Netflix, before DVD and VHS, before even HBO, once a movie left the theater, ...
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George Orwell Explains Why He Had To Write 1984 In This 1944 Letter

George Orwell Explains Why He Had To Write 1984 In This 1944 Letter

  On May 18 1944 George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair; 25 June 1903 – 21 ...
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Platforms: The Official Footwear of the ’70s

Platforms: The Official Footwear of the ’70s

If you think of iconic 1970s fashion, you think of bell-bottoms, wide collars, and the shoes ...
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WoodSwimmer: A Mesmerising Stop-Motion Film Of A Tree’s Story Made By Cutting Through Wood

WoodSwimmer: A Mesmerising Stop-Motion Film Of A Tree’s Story Made By Cutting Through Wood

WoodSwimmer is a look at wood. It's a film made by the creators painstakingly cutting through bits ...
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Valerie and Colin’s Wedding Reception – Southampton, 1972

Valerie and Colin’s Wedding Reception – Southampton, 1972

In 1972, Wedding of Colin R Vokes and Valerie G Cousens married at Southampton's Church ...
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The City (1925): A Timeless Novel In Woodcuts

The City (1925): A Timeless Novel In Woodcuts

"This is the city and I am one of the citizens, Whatever interests the rest ...
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Trucker Magazine Calendar Girls of the 1970s

Trucker Magazine Calendar Girls of the 1970s

We recently took a tour through the 1972-1973 issues of that glorious trucker magazine, Overdrive. ...
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Retro Rockabilly Gangs Of 1980s France

Retro Rockabilly Gangs Of 1980s France

  It's Normandy, France, 1982. Gil Rigoulet is taking intimate, fly-on-the-wall photographs of youths reigniting louche Rockabilly ...
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Rabble-rousing Caroline Coon, Eric The Tramp and the Oz obscenity trial

Rabble-rousing Caroline Coon, Eric The Tramp and the Oz obscenity trial

Photographer Joe Stevens has dug deep into his archive for these three gems from his ...
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‘Groovy’ Pictures of London in 1966

‘Groovy’ Pictures of London in 1966

More photos from Glen F's collection on Flickr. This time from London in 1966. It ...
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Ralph Steadman’s Illustrations for George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1995)

Ralph Steadman’s Illustrations for George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1995)

In 1995, Ralph Steadman added his illustrations to a 50th anniversary issue of George Orwell’s Animal ...
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When Lee Scratch Perry Tried To Bust Paul McCartney From A Japanese Jail (1980)

When Lee Scratch Perry Tried To Bust Paul McCartney From A Japanese Jail (1980)

When Paul McCartney was arrested for cannabis possession, The Upsetter demanded his release ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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