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1968 In Photos: The High Court Agrees Meagre Compensation For Thalidomide Victims

1968 In Photos: The High Court Agrees Meagre Compensation For Thalidomide Victims

ON this day in photos - February 19 1968: the High Court orders damages to be ...
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Vintage Adverts: 1970 Landlubber Bellbottoms For Men Who Ride Sidesaddle

Vintage Adverts: 1970 Landlubber Bellbottoms For Men Who Ride Sidesaddle

THIS vintage advert from 1970 is for Landlubber, hip-hugging bellbottoms that made your navel and buttocks ...
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Worst Books Ever: Sex And The Single Child And The I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl!

Worst Books Ever: Sex And The Single Child And The I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl!

  IN 1970 Whitney Darrow created I'm Glad I'm a Boy! I'm Glad I'm a ...
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17 Insane and Disturbing Trading Cards

17 Insane and Disturbing Trading Cards

NON-SPORTS trading cards around the 1970s generally were aimed at kids and revolved around a ...
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1978: Former Cliff Richard Guitarist Jet Harris At Marlborough Street Magistrates, London

1978: Former Cliff Richard Guitarist Jet Harris At Marlborough Street Magistrates, London

FLASHBACK to 11/09/1978: Terence Harris of Porchester Terrace, Paddington - 29 year old pop musician ...
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1967: Manchester City’s Mike Summerbee Demonstrates His Car’s Built-In Record Player

1967: Manchester City’s Mike Summerbee Demonstrates His Car’s Built-In Record Player

  FLASHBACK: Manchester City's Mike Summerbee demonstrating the built in record player in his new ...
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Swedish Dance Bands Of The 1970s: Whipped Hair And No Underwear

Swedish Dance Bands Of The 1970s: Whipped Hair And No Underwear

  ABBA was not the only Swedish band to emerge in the 1970s.  A myriad ...
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8 Reasons Why Every Movie Needs A Theme Song

8 Reasons Why Every Movie Needs A Theme Song

  A LOT of people make a lot of films, but sadly not all those ...
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Classic Books: Peggy Treadwell’s The Working Couple’s Cookbook

Classic Books: Peggy Treadwell’s The Working Couple’s Cookbook

  IN this study of 1970s life, we look at Peggy Treadwell's The Working Couple's ...
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Those Meddling Scooby Do Kids: Saturday Morning Mimicry

Those Meddling Scooby Do Kids: Saturday Morning Mimicry

UPON the success of Scooby Doo, a flood of imitations appeared on television screens, all ...
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Monsters from Yesteryear: Four TV Horror Anthologies That Deserve a DVD Resurrection

Monsters from Yesteryear: Four TV Horror Anthologies That Deserve a DVD Resurrection

  ON Tuesday, February 25, Monsters: The Complete Series will be released on DVD. For ...
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Self-Abuse Challenge: Listen To 10 Awful Songs From The ’80s

Self-Abuse Challenge: Listen To 10 Awful Songs From The ’80s

WHY subject yourself to ten objectively awful songs, you ask?  Even though it will be ...
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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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