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Ephemera from the first James Bond Film – Dr No

Ephemera from the first James Bond Film – Dr No

Dr No was the first of 22 James Bond films and released in 1962 based ...
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Six Times Your Favorite Toys Were Also Props on Your Favorite Sci-Fi TV Show

Six Times Your Favorite Toys Were Also Props on Your Favorite Sci-Fi TV Show

  Dramatic television programs, especially those of the science fiction variety are often produced at ...
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Pen Trials And Other Doodles In 13th And 14th Century Books

Pen Trials And Other Doodles In 13th And 14th Century Books

AT Leiden University, Holland, Erik Kwakkel has been checking 13th and 14th Century for 'pen trials', "sketches, ...
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Forgotten Fads: The Great Pocket Bedazzlement of ’81

Forgotten Fads: The Great Pocket Bedazzlement of ’81

  It certainly wasn't a high water mark in fashion history, but insanely popular nonetheless; it ...
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Inside Soccer Changing Rooms Of The 1970s: Bathtime With The Winners

Inside Soccer Changing Rooms Of The 1970s: Bathtime With The Winners

BEFORE the 'selfie', massive headphones and 'image right', footballers were approachable and human. You could ...
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Thirteen Gorgeous Old Bird’s Custard ads

Thirteen Gorgeous Old Bird’s Custard ads

  Bird’s Custard was invented by the Chemist Alfred Bird in 1837, essentially, because his ...
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The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Revealed: An 18th Century Sex Guide

The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Revealed: An 18th Century Sex Guide

John Overholt, Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts for Houghton Library at Harvard, brings to the ...
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Horror Movie Newspaper Adverts of the 1960s-70s

Horror Movie Newspaper Adverts of the 1960s-70s

It's Saturday morning 1976. You're eating a bowl of Frankenberry in your Spiderman footie pajamas ...
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You Should Be Dancin’: The 5 Movie Musicals that Killed Disco at the Box Office

You Should Be Dancin’: The 5 Movie Musicals that Killed Disco at the Box Office

    In 1977, John Badham’s Saturday Night Fever took the box office and pop ...
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Reach Out and Charge Someone: Long Distance Calls in the 1970s

Reach Out and Charge Someone: Long Distance Calls in the 1970s

  Have you ever seen a more ridiculous thing in your life? These crummy pieces ...
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Mr Lettsom’s 1797 Moral Thermometer Measures The Impact of Your Drinking Habits

Mr Lettsom’s 1797 Moral Thermometer Measures The Impact of Your Drinking Habits

ACCORDING to 18th-century physician John Coakley Lettsom's “moral and physical thermometer”, one of his Hints Designed to Promote ...
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12 Memorable American TV Commercials of the 1970s

12 Memorable American TV Commercials of the 1970s

This is a list of memorable Seventies commercials. Not the best - just the iconic, ...
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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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