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Cabin crew in the 1950s had to take great care of their appearance while at work. The early decades of flying were strongly associated with glamour and luxury as only the wealthy could afford to fly. Consequently, the air hostesses were expected to look pleasing to the eye. However, some flight attendant requirements were also […]
Here’s a new version of Jingle Bells you won’t hear played in malls, and it’s courtesy of one of the oldest computers in history. Turing archive director Jack Copeland and composer Jason Long have recreated Ferranti Mark 1’s Christmas performance for the BBC back in 1951. During that broadcast, the first commercially available general-purpose electronic […]
It portrayed another world: a Britain in which to be gay was to be sentenced to a life living in the shadows, open to blackmail and, far worse, a prison sentence, a world in which gay men were routinely referred to as perverts, associated with paedophilia, spoken of with contempt by everyone else. That film, […]
PH A picture-postcard sunset at the resort There are two speeds in Cuba – slow and stationary. The country may be opening up to tourism more, but there’s still a very 1950s vibe about the place – and it is all the more lovely for it. We stayed in Cayo Santa Maria, 100 miles off […]
Getty It was clear that after Get Out made a cool $ 162 million in America alone, writer-director Jordan Peele was going to go on and make more fantastic (and hopefully horrifying) things. After a couple of months of speculation, we now know what his next project’s going to be. Advertisement According to a Deadline […]
With summer 2017 fast approaching, you may have missed the boat on planning a holiday this year. But all hope is not lost – now is the perfect time to start organising your 2018 break. Next year’s summer holidays just got more exciting with Thomas Cook’s launch of four new destinations. From Greece to Spain, […]
Advice on the best way to clean a mirror, how to wash the whitest whites and save gas shows the pride they took in keeping a perfect home in an age when cleanliness, thriftiness and ingenuity were elevated to an art form. The answers to 1,250 such questions – together with the names and addresses […]
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