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1971: The Glastonbury Fayre Where Only The New Pyramid Stage Was Plastic

1971: The Glastonbury Fayre Where Only The New Pyramid Stage Was Plastic

Before Glastonbury became a corporate BBC-sponsored event - and how Aunty Beeb kills the cool with her patronage - it was free and fun. ...
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Eegah! 10 Amazingly Bad Movie Titles

Eegah! 10 Amazingly Bad Movie Titles

WHAT'S the worst movie title of all time? Freddy Got Fingered (2001) and Stop! Or ...
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Circa 1780: Francis Gerber’s Vampiryc Research Case

Circa 1780: Francis Gerber’s Vampiryc Research Case

CIRCA 1780: Francis Gerber Vampiryc Research Case:     (more…)
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Peaches Geldof: Bob Geldof And His Wife TV Presenter Paula Yates Show Off Their Newborn Daughter In 1989

Peaches Geldof: Bob Geldof And His Wife TV Presenter Paula Yates Show Off Their Newborn Daughter In 1989

FLASHBACK to March 16 1989: Rock star Bob Geldof, his wife, TV presenter Paula Yates, ...
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The Incredible Cloth Womb Of 18th Century Midwife Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray

The Incredible Cloth Womb Of 18th Century Midwife Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray

To combat high infant mortality rates and teach young mothers about giving birth in the ...
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5 Highly Troubling Vintage Adverts

5 Highly Troubling Vintage Adverts

HERE is some free advice for up-and-coming marketing execs: Adverts should not make consumers feel ...
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1492: Wound Man Was The Luckiest Man Alive In The Middle Ages

1492: Wound Man Was The Luckiest Man Alive In The Middle Ages

THE Wound Man is a compendium of all the injuries that a body in the ...
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The 1940 Reader: A Potato That Wasn’t A Christian

The 1940 Reader: A Potato That Wasn’t A Christian

IN 1940, the pamphlet A potato that wasn't a Christian hit the streets.   Now ...
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The ‘Pacific Coast Nimrod’ Seth Kinman And His Snapping Grizzly Bear Chairs Fit For Presidents

The ‘Pacific Coast Nimrod’ Seth Kinman And His Snapping Grizzly Bear Chairs Fit For Presidents

  IN 1865,  Seth Kinman (1815-1888), the California Hunter and Trapper, gave US President Andrew Johnson a GRIZZLY-BAR ...
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Vintage Sexism: The A.C. Gilbert ‘Lab Technician Set For Girls’ (1958)

Vintage Sexism: The A.C. Gilbert ‘Lab Technician Set For Girls’ (1958)

IN 1958 New Haven-based toymaker A.C. Gilbert Company turned youngsters onto science with a new ...
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Boys’ Fiction: Ripping Yarns From The Victorian and Edwardian Heyday of Public School Fiction

Boys’ Fiction: Ripping Yarns From The Victorian and Edwardian Heyday of Public School Fiction

At last, a welcome repeat of Michael Palin and Terry Jones’s Ripping Yarns – post-Python ...
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Manchester United 1963: Tony Dunne, Bobby Charlton, Noel Cantwell, Pat Crerand, Albert Quixall, David Herd And The FA Cup Hat

Manchester United 1963: Tony Dunne, Bobby Charlton, Noel Cantwell, Pat Crerand, Albert Quixall, David Herd And The FA Cup Hat

FLASHBACK to May 25th 1963: FA Cup Final: Manchester United v Leicester City. Manchester United players ...
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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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