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1972 gift special: a life-size doll of you

1972 gift special: a life-size doll of you

IT'S 1972. Cosmetic surgery is not yet so advanced. Dolly the sheep is but a ...
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1956: The Are You In The Know? booklet about menstruating, fashion and dating?

1956: The Are You In The Know? booklet about menstruating, fashion and dating?

HOW did they date in 1956 ? Thanks to Are You in the Know, we ...
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1956: The Are You In The Know? booklet about menstruating, fashion and dating?

1956: The Are You In The Know? booklet about menstruating, fashion and dating?

HOW did they date in 1956 ? Thanks to this historial document, we know. It ...
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Farewell Ceefax: How Internet killed the television star

Farewell Ceefax: How Internet killed the television star

  FAREWELL then, Ceefax; your Legoland graphics will delight and inform us no more. You ...
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Anti-pregnancy poster from 1970

Anti-pregnancy poster from 1970

FLASHBACK to MArch 1970: The pregnant man poster was issued by the Health Education Council. ...
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A wonderful video of Speakers’ Corner from 1986

A wonderful video of Speakers’ Corner from 1986

LIKE Robin Popper, I too used to wander past Speakers' Corner on a Sunday (aka ...
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Pigeons: A pictorial history of humanity and the urban bird

Pigeons: A pictorial history of humanity and the urban bird

PIGEONS. One half of humanity seems hellbent on trying to murder them with harks and ...
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Hear the one about WWII remote controlled bomb-pigeons?

Hear the one about WWII remote controlled bomb-pigeons?

THE thing that really defines Britishness, is the man tinkering around in a shed, coming ...
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1930: A photobomber strikes in Birmingham, Alabama

1930: A photobomber strikes in Birmingham, Alabama

PHOTOBOMB of the day: the 1930 photobombing in Birmingham, Alabama: Spotter: Tim Blair
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1854: William Snyder killed in most bizarre and terrifying way ever

1854: William Snyder killed in most bizarre and terrifying way ever

FLASHBACK to 1854. William Snyder of Cincinnati had died. He was "killed by being swung ...
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Every day racism: this 1970s advert for Silk Cut cigarettes

Every day racism: this 1970s advert for Silk Cut cigarettes

YOU know that bemoaning of policial correctness, how it's always gone mad at the behest ...
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1966 snapshot: When a deer narrowly missed Ursula Andress’s right eye

1966 snapshot: When a deer narrowly missed Ursula Andress’s right eye

SNAPSHOT of the day harks back to 1966. Ursula Andress was sporting far glasses. Why? ...
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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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