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The Great Mego Playsets of the 1970s

The Great Mego Playsets of the 1970s

When I was a kid in the 1970s, one company stood above the rest in ...
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Bike Shed Library: No. 1: Chopper by Pete Cave (NEL, 1971)

Bike Shed Library: No. 1: Chopper by Pete Cave (NEL, 1971)

Bike Shed Library An occasional feature devoted to those classroom classics, passed from hand to ...
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Faces of The Blitz and England in World War 2 (40 Photos): 1940-1944

Faces of The Blitz and England in World War 2 (40 Photos): 1940-1944

The Blitz (short for Blitzkrieg - the German for "lightning war") began on 7 September ...
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When Nazis Attack! Men’s Action Mags and Hitler’s Perverted Minions

When Nazis Attack! Men’s Action Mags and Hitler’s Perverted Minions

We recently took a look at the pulp magazine's treatment of blacks - a wildly ...
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Yearbook ’78: A Look at Groovy Senior Slogans

Yearbook ’78: A Look at Groovy Senior Slogans

For Seventies nostalgia it doesn't get much better than old yearbooks. It's a front row ...
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Polyester Pages: Magazine Fashion Spreads (1970-1974)

Polyester Pages: Magazine Fashion Spreads (1970-1974)

These fashion pictorials are taken from magazines giving 1970s readers a taste of the coolest ...
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Paleo-Television: A Look at Boob Tube Technologies Through the Years

Paleo-Television: A Look at Boob Tube Technologies Through the Years

The purchase of TV set used to be akin to buying a car; they were ...
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‘The Woman Cop (A Dream)’: Suffragette Imagines Being America’s First Police Woman – 1908

‘The Woman Cop (A Dream)’: Suffragette Imagines Being America’s First Police Woman – 1908

Photographs of a woman's dream of becoming a cop ...
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Rubik’s Reign: The Toy Puzzle Craze of the 1980s

Rubik’s Reign: The Toy Puzzle Craze of the 1980s

The first years of the eighties brought kids around the world an intriguing and fun ...
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Vintage Hair Adverts: 1960s-70s Products, Styles and Tragic Cuts

Vintage Hair Adverts: 1960s-70s Products, Styles and Tragic Cuts

Flashbak is no stranger to the world of vintage hair (ex. From Bouffant to Farrah: The ...
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The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

Here is the copy from an ad that aired on Los Angeles radio in the ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

Hitchcock’s 1972 Frenzy Is One Of The Least Festive Films Ever Made

  The BBC2’s decision to screen Alfred Hichcock’s Frenzy at 12.05am on the second of ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... 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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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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