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The importance of keeping a notebook or Thomas Hardy’s four word novel

The importance of keeping a notebook or Thomas Hardy’s four word novel

Writers keep notebooks as inspiration can come at the most inopportune of moments. Malcolm Lowry ...
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What Retro Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?

What Retro Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?

Everyone's contemplated the eternal questions – where would you rather live, the Star Trek universe or ...
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Christmas on TV: A Look at Holiday Episodes and Specials

Christmas on TV: A Look at Holiday Episodes and Specials

By no means is this list comprehensive - there's been so many Christmas specials and ...
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Mad, Sexist and Above All Brilliant Vintage Christmas Ads (Part 2)

Mad, Sexist and Above All Brilliant Vintage Christmas Ads (Part 2)

Here's another supply of advertising from Christmases past.  Don't forget to check out last season's ...
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Your Show or Mine? The most Unforgettable Live-Action Superhero Crossovers in Cult-TV History

Your Show or Mine? The most Unforgettable Live-Action Superhero Crossovers in Cult-TV History

  A “crossover” is an incidence in which a character from one TV series appears ...
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Happiness is a Warm Gun: 1965 Boy’s Life Adverts

Happiness is a Warm Gun: 1965 Boy’s Life Adverts

Boys' Life magazine in the 1950s and 1960s was basically a manual on how to ...
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Vinyl 2 of a Kind: Cheesecake Edition

Vinyl 2 of a Kind: Cheesecake Edition

Back in August, we brought you pairs of albums which looked alike.  It was so ...
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Comin at Ya: The Eighties 3-D Movie Craze (circa 1981 – 1983)

Comin at Ya: The Eighties 3-D Movie Craze (circa 1981 – 1983)

In 2009, 3-D movies roared back to the pop culture forefront with expensive sci-fi epics like ...
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The “Sexist” Gentlemen Prefer Hanes Adverts of the 1970s and 80s

The “Sexist” Gentlemen Prefer Hanes Adverts of the 1970s and 80s

The ad campaign “Gentlemen Prefer Hanes” spanned over a decade, beginning in the early 1970s ...
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Stanley Kubrick’s code red

Stanley Kubrick’s code red

Pick a colour between one and ten. Double it. Add three, and subtract the colour ...
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Troops of the Royal Scots Regiment demonstrate their Grantapault in Belfast, Northern Ireland in July 1970

Troops of the Royal Scots Regiment demonstrate their Grantapault in Belfast, Northern Ireland in July 1970

We've seen photographs of British troops in Northern Ireland. But we thought these pictures deserved their ...
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Scared America: 8 Crises and Collective Panics of the 1970s

Scared America: 8 Crises and Collective Panics of the 1970s

Every decade has its share of fears – whether it’s the Red Scare or Global ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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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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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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