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The best of the Passing Show: Bolshevism, Ireland, Japanese empire and German hurt satirised

The best of the Passing Show: Bolshevism, Ireland, Japanese empire and German hurt satirised

THE Passing Show was a British magazine published in the early 1920s. One section was ...
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Vintage erotica: when Spick and Span sex sold central heating in 1960s Britain

Vintage erotica: when Spick and Span sex sold central heating in 1960s Britain

IN the 1960s, young bucks got their copies of Spic and Span magazine. The women ...
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The Man-Catcher: the car’s ultimate safety device

The Man-Catcher: the car’s ultimate safety device

  THE MAN-CATCHER never did catch on. The 1020s safety device "consists of three rollers ...
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Everyday Racism in books: Simple Edition by A Little Nigger

Everyday Racism in books: Simple Edition by A Little Nigger

It tapped into a theme. Earlier, G.H. Thompson had  illustrated Ten Little Nigger Boys, a ...
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The Hiroshima atomic bomb: the story in photos

The Hiroshima atomic bomb: the story in photos

HIROSHIMA: the bomb that ended a war: (more…)
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Destination Freedom: Richard Durham’s radio show educated with stories of ‘negro’ life

Destination Freedom: Richard Durham’s radio show educated with stories of ‘negro’ life

DESTINATION Freedom  was a politically driven half-hour radio drama that gave a voice to African ...
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Donny & Marie sing Reelin’ In The Years

Donny & Marie sing Reelin’ In The Years

DONNY Osmond, 1970s Poster Boy for the lovelorn (literally), once teamed up with the lovely ...
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1905: Portraits of Bulldogs in Fancy Dress

1905: Portraits of Bulldogs in Fancy Dress

FLASHBACK to 1905: Portraits of Bulldogs in Fancy Dress. My, how fashions change. Back then, ...
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‘I was a ‘Hitchhiker On the Highway of Love’: 1938 sexism

‘I was a ‘Hitchhiker On the Highway of Love’: 1938 sexism

IN 1938, Listerine featured the woman who was a 'Hitchhiker On the Highway of Love'. Could ...
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US National Institute of Mental Health 1969 pamphlet on ‘Marihuana’

US National Institute of Mental Health 1969 pamphlet on ‘Marihuana’

IN 1969, the US National Institute of Mental Health produced advice on 'Marihuana'. The advice ...
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Vintage bed adverts – 22 photos of bedroom bliss

Vintage bed adverts – 22 photos of bedroom bliss

YOU'RE never more at home then when you're in your own bed. We've leafed through ...
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Keith Richards asks: ‘Who the F*** Is Mick Jagger?’

Keith Richards asks: ‘Who the F*** Is Mick Jagger?’

FLASHBACK to 1975: Keith Richards Wearing a T-shirt asking "Who The F*** Is Mick Jagger?" ...
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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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