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Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Flying Ant Day, then (1953) and then (1978)
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How the times they are a-have-changed. Once the friendly flying ant was as welcome an annual sight as the Padstow Mummy or Docto...
Thursday, 10 October 2013
“Ennui - the silent killer,” 1975
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A tireless programme of national jam making, competitive vegetable husbandry and choir practice had all but eradicated the perilous sicknes...
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Friday, 14 June 2013
“There’s a new town in town,” 1969
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The building of the New Towns in Britain was the biggest construction project in mainland Europe since France’s national ba...
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Friday, 8 March 2013
“If you’re playing without a licence, you could be fined,” 1976
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“Sound synthesis” was discovered one freezing summer afternoon in 1941 at the GPO Research station in Twelveford by Dilwyn ...
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Friday, 22 February 2013
“Sit up straight,” 1946
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The period immediately following the grand finale of the Second World War found Britain exhausted and impov...
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Thursday, 7 February 2013
“Here’s a sight for sore eyes. And soon it could be yours,” 1989
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The privatisation of government assets was reaching boiling pitch by the late 1980s and, having sold off Bri...
Friday, 18 January 2013
“Ask before you vent,” 1955
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The NOI ran this hastily conceived poster in theatres and working men’s clubs in 1955. That year, polite and rude society alike ha...
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