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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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    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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