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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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Bathroom Nightmares: The Definitive Guide to Shower Scenes in Horror Cinema

Bathroom Nightmares: The Definitive Guide to Shower Scenes in Horror Cinema

One constant that runs through countless horror films (especially in the slasher genre) is the ...
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Wonderful Footage From The Aftermath Of A 1992 Rave

Wonderful Footage From The Aftermath Of A 1992 Rave

    WHAT was the rave music scene like in the 1990s?     YouTuber mariaraver92 has ...
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Wonderfully Creepy Taxidermy Furniture Of The Victorians

Wonderfully Creepy Taxidermy Furniture Of The Victorians

THE Victorians liked to turn the dead into useful objects. They were the great recyclers. ...
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5 Disturbing Films from the 1970s that Will Destroy Your Will to Live

5 Disturbing Films from the 1970s that Will Destroy Your Will to Live

Why did movies in the 1970s get so nihilistic, nasty and brutal? This has been ...
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The Breast of the Best: The Top 5 Jiggle TV Shows of the 1970s

The Breast of the Best: The Top 5 Jiggle TV Shows of the 1970s

The first half of the 1970s saw television abandoning the light and fluffy sitcom (I ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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