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On This Day – February 19 1942: Japan attacks Australia

On This Day – February 19 1942: Japan attacks Australia

ON 19 February 1942, 188 Japanese planes attacked Darwin, Australia. The planes launched from four ...
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Shameless nostalgia – the 1970s with a Ravioli Smile

Shameless nostalgia – the 1970s with a Ravioli Smile

SHAMELESS Nostalgia journeys to the 1970s to showcase: Robert Plant in his budgie smugglers; Keith ...
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The 10 Best (Worst) Valentine’s Day Cards Ever

The 10 Best (Worst) Valentine’s Day Cards Ever

Looking for something different this Valentine’s Day? Well, there are plenty of options available. You could ...
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Honor Blackman’s Book of Self Defence (1965)

Honor Blackman’s Book of Self Defence (1965)

“When I was 10 or 11 I knocked out two boys who were bullying my brother. I can’t stand bullies. My mother was horrified, but they had to learn" - Honor Blackman ...
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Vintage book of the Day: Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs

Vintage book of the Day: Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs

VINTAGE book of the Day: Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs. Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs is ...
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The nostalgia proof European sex mag – photos

The nostalgia proof European sex mag – photos

THE nostalgia proof sex stills will take you back to those halcyon says of lurid ...
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Letter of the day: an emancipated black slave writes to his former master

Letter of the day: an emancipated black slave writes to his former master

JOURDON Anderson was an ex-slave writing to his former owner, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big ...
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Photos of the day: The 1980s Quiz

Photos of the day: The 1980s Quiz

IT'S the 1980s here at Anorak Towers, the era when Old Mr Anorak's godson Tiny ...
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The Type A-2 Bomber Jacket: bombs, babes and wartime fashion (photos)

The Type A-2 Bomber Jacket: bombs, babes and wartime fashion (photos)

THE Bomber jacket was the American Type A-2 leather flight jacket that allowed US military ...
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What is Rapping? – Switchback 1987 with Stu Jeffries knows

What is Rapping? – Switchback 1987 with Stu Jeffries knows

IT'S 1987, and Canadian TV show Switchback and your host Stu Jeffries are answering the ...
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The Chevrolet Newsreels: when cows smoked and pussy cats boxed

The Chevrolet Newsreels: when cows smoked and pussy cats boxed

IT'S 1937, and the Chevrolet 'Newsreels' feature boxing cats being scored by judgemental dogs. (more…)
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41 Don’ts for women riding bicycles in 1895 New York

41 Don’ts for women riding bicycles in 1895 New York

HERE is a list of 41 don’ts for female cyclists as published New York World, 1895. ...
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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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