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London’s Teddy Boys – a photo essay

London’s Teddy Boys – a photo essay

  ALL hail the Teddy Boys. Long-drape jacket, drainpipe trousers, slim tie, plain shirt with ...
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1978: Ted Rodger ‘studies’ The Gentle Secs for 3-2-1

1978: Ted Rodger ‘studies’ The Gentle Secs for 3-2-1

FLASHBACK - with caption by the Press Association: "Ted Rogers studies secretaries (R to L) ...
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It’s Atari and PONG’s 40th birthday

It’s Atari and PONG’s 40th birthday

HAPPY 40th Atari! Amber Frost reminds us that "40 years ago today, with only a ...
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Identify the object

Identify the object

CAN you identify this object? The answer is on page 2.
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Paris 1914: colour photographs

Paris 1914: colour photographs

THESE colour photographs of Paris in 1914 are from the Albert Kahn Museum, based at Kahn's former ...
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The Anthology album of Rolling Stones secret songs

The Anthology album of Rolling Stones secret songs

No Stone Unturned As the Rolling Stones begin their 50th Anniversary with a tour, TV ...
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Lord Fisher uses first example of ‘OMG’ in letter to Winston Churchill

Lord Fisher uses first example of ‘OMG’ in letter to Winston Churchill

IT'S 1917 and Winston Churchill receives a letter from Lord Fisher. It contains the earliest ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

How the Hit Parade moved from phonograph needles, platters and sleaze to MP3s

SIXTY years ago, the first British singles chart – or “Hit Parade” as it was ...
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When Hercules the bear was Scotland’s Number 1 star

When Hercules the bear was Scotland’s Number 1 star

HERCULES was born in a captivity near Aviemore in 1974. Wrestler Andy Robin paid £50 ...
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1965: A film on London’s members’ only clubs

1965: A film on London’s members’ only clubs

IT'S 1965, and the Rank Organisation has produced a film called Look at Life - ...
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Sexism watch: Daredevil slips into ‘something barely legal’

Sexism watch: Daredevil slips into ‘something barely legal’

EVERYDAY sexism looks at this still from a Daredevil comic book. Norman Saunders thought it tame. (more…)
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The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s

The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s

WERE you around in the 1970s? Did you keep fit with the latest kit? We've ...
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    1960s: This Japanese Sex Guide Is Bizarre

    1960s: This Japanese Sex Guide Is Bizarre

    In the 1960s cool cats in Japan were reading this how-to-do-sex book. From how to hold hands, rub noses, chuck chins, remove excess polish from shoes, mate with an artist's flexible wooden figure and jerk off a test tube. This book has the lot:         Spotter: Anorak ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

    When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

    The publication of issue 33 of the Royal College of Art’s magazine ARK in the autumn of 1962 hit the moment in terms of the turbo-charging of contemporary youth culture.   ARK 33, which was declared to be “mainly about young people… [a] somewhat oblique exposée of the Young Ones”, celebrated the lives of ...
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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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    Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

    Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

    We still want decent housing for all ...
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    Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

    Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

    People I like can be divided into two groups: a) those who enjoy and get Charles M. Schulz’s wonderful Peanuts comic strip; b) those fools who don't. All of human life is in the artist and writer's 17,897 comic strips. In 1968 Schulz noticed the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King ...
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    The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

    The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

    Here is the copy from an ad that aired on Los Angeles radio in the summer of 1969: Right now PSA, the airline that is famous for its stewardesses, is looking for girls. Yes..girls to fill a cute orange mini-uniform...girls who smile and mean it...girls who give other people a ...
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