but this site is dedicated to the racers who entertained us in the 1960's and 70's.I started with a collection of old snapshots I'd kept in a shoe box; but over the years, many kind people have sent me their stories and their own photos. ...
Since its European Union (EU) referendum outcome in 2016, Britain’s planned and eventual exit (Brexit) from the EU on 31 January 2020, has been linked to increasing racist hate crimes (Benson and Lewis2019). Although such a political climate undoubtedly impacts Black women in Britain, it is...
Since its European Union (EU) referendum outcome in 2016, Britain's planned and eventual exit (Brexit) from the EU on 31 January 2020, has been linked to increasing racist hate crimes (Benson and Lewis 2019). Although such a political climate undoubtedly impacts Black women in Britain, it ...
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Airplane!, and the free DVD you're going to get in next Saturday's Guardian, here are 30 facts on Shirley the mother of all movie spoofs ...1 Airplane! is a remake of a 1957 TV movie called Zero Hour!2 The "food-poisoning on a plane" plot...
Reprints of the Penny Black and forgeries of both stamps: A.R. Cowman, “The Forgeries of Great Britain”, The Stamp Lover, Vol. 24 (November 1931): 152-55, continued at (December 1931): 187-89. Fakes: W.H.S. Cheavin, “Great Britain: More Repaired Stamps under X-Ray ‘...
In December 1980, the Health Education Council launched a campaign designed to discourage children from taking up smoking. Advertisements on TV and in comics and magazines featured a battle between Superman and the evil Nick O’Teen as he attempted to re
This is the eleventh and final part in the investigation into the 1934 ‘Bow Cinema Murder’. You can read all entries in the series here. After John Stockwell’s execution on 14 November 1934, the Bow Cinema murder case had formally come to a close – but its impact on the people caug...
There is a good mix, both in time and location and it makes you want to visit the areas described, just see see what's left of these vanished places。 A good book to dip into。 A fascinating story of lost villages and towns and the reasons they were abandoned。 There is a good mix...
“You should have come in and said hi!” Thomas tells me half an hour later. (Turns out her house is undergoing maintenance work - boiler, I think - and she was killing time round the corner from our rendezvous.) I probably should have done: it’s a hackneyed old line but Thomas ...