The term ‘teenager’ started being used in the 1940s to describe those increasingly outspoken young people who, unlike the youth of previous generations, now often…
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As the pop music scene matured in the early 70s, so its audience widened to a younger age group – the Teenyboppers. No longer the…
One of the most well-known fads of all time was the art of Telephone Booth Stuffing. In taking part in this event, several students would…
Many popular TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s spawned board games linked (sometimes rather tenuously) to the show itself. The trend continued into the 70s…
Telstar, the first television satellite, was launched on 10 July 1962. It was capable of accepting radio transmissions covering 600 telephone and telegraph channels or…
Placing unsuspecting gamers right in the heart of a terrifying storm, Atari’s Tempest put a whole new perspective on video games. With dazzling QuadraScan™ colour…
A one-time bank clerk, Wogan joined the BBC in the 1960s and was one of Radio 1’s original team of presenters in 1967. His Radio…
Born on 25 November 1958, Carole Hersee was the daughter of BBC engineer and test card designer George Hersee. It made perfect sense that she…
The world’s first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, weighing five pounds twelve ounces, was delivered by a Caesarean operation at Oldham District General Hospital, Greater Manchester,…
Tetris was invented in 1984 by Alexey Pazhitnov, a researcher at the Computer Centre of the USSR Academy of scientists in Moscow and programmed with…
“A mans gotta chew what a mans gotta chew”. The Mighty Chew – a chocolate-covered nougat bar from Rowntrees which you could stretch to the…
Thalidomide was a pharmaceutical ingredient used in medicines in the early 1960s as a sedative, and prescribed mainly to expectant mothers in the early stages…
Petrol rationing in Britain during the Second World War meant that private motoring virtually disappeared. When rationing ceased in 1951, fuel companies began a battle…
Mattel debuted the first Thingmaker sets in 1964 with Creepy Crawlers (a variety of bugs, snakes, bats and other gruesome members of the animal kingdom)…
“Read it . . . and you’ll be thunderstruck!” This weekly comic from Fleetway/IPC debuted on 17 October 1970 and lasted for just twenty-two weeks…
In the winter of 1996, parents across America trampled each other on Black Friday and scoured stores in vain for the hottest Christmas toy of…
Tiddlywinks originated in England during the late 1800s. The name comes from “tiddly wink” which is English slang for an unlicensed pub. Tiddlywinks became popular…
Tie-dye is one of the oldest forms of fabric manipulation and design. The concept is simple: dye can only penetrate loose fabric, and when portions…
Fleetway launched Tiger in September 1954 with the subtitle “The Sport and Adventure Picture Story Weekly”. The boys’ weekly featured sporting strips and stars such as Geoff…
Tiger Beat was founded in September 1965 by Charles “Chuck” Laufer, his brother Ira Laufer, and television producer and host Lloyd Thaxton. Marketed primarily to…