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A modern history of Vandals: why do they do it?

A modern history of Vandals: why do they do it?

VANDALS: why do they do it? No sooner had the first golden post box been ...
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Groucho Marx endorses lightbulb snatching and more

Groucho Marx endorses lightbulb snatching and more

GROUCHO Marx was a funny man.But could he make you buy thing? Would a Groucho ...
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The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

CONTINUING Anorak's look a bicycles and cycling, we bring you the 1955 Huffy Radio Bike. ...
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Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes

Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes

IT'S 1953 and Groucho Marx's television show You Bet Your Life is on the magic box. But not ...
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The cycling sewing machine of 1939

The cycling sewing machine of 1939

CYCLING. CYCLING! That's good, Olympic champions Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton. But can ...
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A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

ITS as easy as riding a bike. So they say. It turns out that the ...
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A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

SIR Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins have got us all on our bikes. But a ...
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The best and worst Olympic protests

The best and worst Olympic protests

WHEN the Spanish water polo coach considered ordering his team to stay in the pool, ...
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Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

WHO was the mystery woman in red top and jeans, marching proudly at the front ...
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1950s boys advertise underwear for an appreciative man

1950s boys advertise underwear for an appreciative man

AS Old Mr Anorak knows, you can always trust man who tucks his vest into ...
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A history of Olympics cock-ups

A history of Olympics cock-ups

THE Olymics got off to a jittery start this week, when the North Korean women’s ...
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Corporate song of the day: when Burnley Building Society gave savings a disco soundtrack

Corporate song of the day: when Burnley Building Society gave savings a disco soundtrack

CORPORATE song of the day - It's the late 1970s and Burnley Building Society are ...
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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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