In 1985 Boris Yeltsin was appointed head of the Moscow City Party Committee. He alienated party conservatives via his attempts to eradicate corruption and was…
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It was 14 June 1962 when The Boston Strangler first struck. Over the next 18 months, Boston was gripped by fear. Eleven women were strangled…
“The Bounty Hunters – they came in search of paradise . . .” Coconut and chocolate bars that offered “a taste of paradise” . .…
Buttered and Bovril-ed bread sliced into four or five uniform strips. The same militia were more popularly spotted in their other gear – hence ‘buttered’…
Wide – at *least* two inches – braces (or “suspenders” in the USA), generally with rainbows or anything colourful. Clipped-on with cheap metal clips. (Think…
When young actors like Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Matthew Broderick and Rob Lowe moved out of obscurity and into films like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day…
A major component of the budding hip-hop culture of the early 80s, break dancing was a physically demanding, youth-oriented dance activity involving complex, improvisational manoeuvres…
Some of the breakfast cereals listed below are still in production. Some have been re-named and re-packaged. Many of them disappeared as quickly as they…
Designed by future Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs (though Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reportedly did the bulk of the work), Breakout turned the video game…
Brian Epstein was born on 19 September 1934 in Rodney Street, Liverpool – an exclusive area well known for its concentration of doctors. The grandson…
Before 1964, America’s worldwide domination of the pop music industry — and youth culture in general — was virtually total. Few British artists made much…
World War II, cowboys and soccer were the tripod on which boys’ comics were built in the 1950s and 1960s. DC Thomson and Fleetway were…
British Road Services (BRS) was established in 1948 as the road transport company formed by the nationalisation of Britain’s road haulage industry, under the British…
The mid-90s was a golden era for British music, with several fine bands all coming good at the same time. There was, though, little camaraderie…
Britain in the mid-1970s: The streets were awash with stale, post-hippy denim and airbrushed Farrah Fawcett-Majors flickbacks. But in the summer of 1976, a group of…
Prior to World War II, cigarette cards (small rectangles of coloured pasteboard inserted in cigarette packets) had been collected in Britain in their millions. The…
These thick crepe soled shoes first walked onto the scene when British Teddy Boys adopted the “brothel creeper” shoe style as a part of the teenage…
One of the kings of the East Coast airwaves, Brooklyn-born Brucie (born Bruce Meyerowitz on 13 October 1935) began his radio career in the late…
Created in 1929 and mass marketed as the first man’s hair product, Brylcreem was a greasy hair cream that was run through the hair, slicking…
In 1958, Messerschmitt launched their TG500 – a four-wheeler where the driver sat alone in the front, with one or two passengers behind. The car returned…