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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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The Muppets Show took its theme song from 1960s Italian fantasy porn

The Muppets Show took its theme song from 1960s Italian fantasy porn

THE Muppets Show took its theme tune from the 1968 Italian film Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso (Sweden: ...
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1980s muscle mags: when skin had shoulder pads

1980s muscle mags: when skin had shoulder pads

IN the 1980s, muscles were big news. Big muscles in big muscular power suits were ...
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Men’s fashion advertising – when Slax got the girl

Men’s fashion advertising – when Slax got the girl

BACK in the day, men's fashion was all about wearing trousers (Anorak's own-brand Comfi-Slax sold ...
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Customs and Traditions of the UK – The Coopers Apprentice (1953)

Customs and Traditions of the UK – The Coopers Apprentice (1953)

  FLASHBAK to May 1953:  23 year old Albert George Stokes of Corrie Street, Battersea, ...
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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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