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Boys’ Fiction: Ripping Yarns From The Victorian and Edwardian Heyday of Public School Fiction

Boys’ Fiction: Ripping Yarns From The Victorian and Edwardian Heyday of Public School Fiction

At last, a welcome repeat of Michael Palin and Terry Jones’s Ripping Yarns – post-Python ...
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Regrettable Reads: A Stack Of Objectively Bad Vintage Books

Regrettable Reads: A Stack Of Objectively Bad Vintage Books

THEY say not to judge a book by its cover, but I think it’s pretty ...
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Circus Performers Of 1940s And 1950s America In Colour

Circus Performers Of 1940s And 1950s America In Colour

SVERRE "Bex" Braathen captured 1940s and 1950s circus performers on Kodachrome slides.     (more…)
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5 Movie Maniacs From The 1980s That Wanted To Be Freddy Krueger

5 Movie Maniacs From The 1980s That Wanted To Be Freddy Krueger

    THERE'S an old saying that goes: "if you’re going to take a shot ...
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Bread and Circuses at the Movies: The Six Most Savage Games of the Near Dystopian Future

Bread and Circuses at the Movies: The Six Most Savage Games of the Near Dystopian Future

  IN Ancient Rome, the poet Juvenal coined the term “bread and circuses” (panem et ...
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10 Fantastically Awful Retro Toys From Your Corrupted Youth

10 Fantastically Awful Retro Toys From Your Corrupted Youth

AS things heat up in Ukraine and the ever-precarious Middle East continues its pattern of ...
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1983: Simon Birrell of Norwich Shows His BBC Micro Computer Game Bug Bomb To Virgin Interactive’s Richard Branson

1983: Simon Birrell of Norwich Shows His BBC Micro Computer Game Bug Bomb To Virgin Interactive’s Richard Branson

FLASHBACK to July 1 1983: Sixteen-year-old Simon Birrell (r), of Norwich, with millionaire Richard Branson, ...
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Read Robert Crumb’s Weirdo Comic Book On Philip K Dick’s LSD-Driven Meeting With God

Read Robert Crumb’s Weirdo Comic Book On Philip K Dick’s LSD-Driven Meeting With God

WE get to see the face of God in Robert Crumb's Book Of Genesis. But ...
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Who Killed Disco? 7 Suspects Revealed

Who Killed Disco? 7 Suspects Revealed

  IT'S actually amazing when you stop and think about it.   A counter-culture movement originating ...
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19 Classic Pictures I Found From March 1959

19 Classic Pictures I Found From March 1959

WE'VE trawled the archives for pictures from March 1959. Captions were written at the time ...
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Guns, Babes And Testosterone Tales: 1970s Manly Action Paperbacks

Guns, Babes And Testosterone Tales: 1970s Manly Action Paperbacks

THE 1970s saw a proliferation of ultra-macho fiction.  I’m not sure the sociological reason for ...
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Listen To Aldous Huxley’s Talks On The Visionary Experience’ And Read His Advice To Albert Hofmann On Taking LSD

Listen To Aldous Huxley’s Talks On The Visionary Experience’ And Read His Advice To Albert Hofmann On Taking LSD

ON February 29 1962, Aldous Huxley wrote of psychedelic drugs in a letter to Albert ...
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