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London Skinheads 1979-1984: Where Are They Now?

London Skinheads 1979-1984: Where Are They Now?

Skinheads of London were captured on camera by Derek Ridgers. Between 1979 and 1984, Rigers recorded a youth ...
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10 Reasons TV Was Better in the 1970s

10 Reasons TV Was Better in the 1970s

With shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Sherlock, and The Walking Dead ...
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5 Reasons to Love Dungeons & Dragons in the Early 80s

5 Reasons to Love Dungeons & Dragons in the Early 80s

Having barely taken a look at Dungeons & Dragons in decades, I’m no expert on ...
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Fantastic Cosplay Photos From 1977

Fantastic Cosplay Photos From 1977

RON Miller has collected a lovely gallery of 1970s dressing up photos. Most pictures were taken in ...
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An Ode to the Mighty 1970s ‘Stache

An Ode to the Mighty 1970s ‘Stache

"Ya see, doc, I was just a clean cut wimp who couldn't get laid if ...
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Of Bromides and Zino-Pads: A Look Inside American Druggist Magazine (1942)

Of Bromides and Zino-Pads: A Look Inside American Druggist Magazine (1942)

So, I came across this trade magazine, American Druggist, from 1942 and found the adverts ...
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12 Great Horror Themed Music Videos from the 1970s-80s

12 Great Horror Themed Music Videos from the 1970s-80s

Without question, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is the ultimate horror themed music video. Say what you ...
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Old Billingsgate Fish Market in the City of London

Old Billingsgate Fish Market in the City of London

During the 19th century Billingsgate market, situated in the south-east corner of the City of ...
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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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    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 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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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