Two girls go stark mod! 'Smashing Time', 1967, written by George Melly (oh yes) and directed by Desmond Davis, who later made 'Clash Of The Titans'. No groovy Dynamation skeletons, sadly.

A street off Scotswood Road, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, photo by Colin Jones.

Legendary Anglo-Indian dancer Olive Craddock who performed internationally as Roshanara. Photo by Underwood and Underwood, New York c 1918. (Thread)

'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling..." - Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) UK artist #InternationalWomensDay

#nowplaying Paul and Linda McCartney - RAM

#nowplaying XTC - English Settlement

Neko Case’s acclaimed ‘Fox Confessor Brings The Flood’ was released 20 years ago today 🦊

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Moira Kelly in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" - BOTD

Remembering Townes Van Zandt on his birthday youtu.be/zprRZ2wFQD4

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#nowplaying The Dream Academy- A Different Kind of Weather

Iwao Takamoto was one of the Disney greats. Films like Sleeping Beauty owe a lot to his meticulous lines. The studio was a kind of home for him -- it was a big change. Just before, he'd been in the camps. We explore the story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/takamoto-a...

#nowplaying Mitski - Nothing's About to Happen to Me

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#OtD 3 Mar 1985 after a year on strike and some of the most bitter class war in UK history the National Union of Mineworkers voted to end the stoppage. A turning point for the working class in Britain, this iconic strike came to define the decade stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1021...

#nowplaying Bill Callahan - My Days of 58

THESE ISLES: Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960), Welsh Labour politician, spearheaded the creation of the UK’s National Health Service in 1948 and was one of the most influential left-wing politicians in the Isles’ history. He overcame a speech impediment to become a renowned orator. 1/10

#nowplaying Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

#nowplaying Friends Again - Trapped and Unwrapped

Yesterday was Elizabeth Taylor's birthday, so here she is in her salad days, smuggling a kitten. #Caturday

#nowplaying Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain

#nowplaying The Colourfield - The Sound of the Colourfield, Disc 1 - Virgins and Philistines (remastered)

Julie Christie and chum, Birmingham, 1963. 📷 Michael Ward

#nowplaying Manic Street Preachers - Futurology

Jean Shrimpton (in a dress by Robert Krausz), London 1968. Photographed by Tony Prime. #JeanShrimpton #Photography #SwingingLondon

#nowplaying Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament

The right are furious that a white, English tradesperson got elected.

#nowplaying Josef K - It’s Kinda Funny

Louise in a still from A Social Celebrity (1926).

Björk, 1994 | © Barry Marsden.

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Tom Courtenay in "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" - BOTD

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Heather Taylor for Velmar (1967)

Lee Miller by Man Ray, c1930.

Lundi (Musidora - Les Vampires, 1916)

Musidora as Irma Vep in LES VAMPIRES (1915 - 1916) She was BOTD in 1889

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), critically acclaimed US photographer know for her mysterious work in black and white #womensart

British Pop Art painter Pauline Boty, photographed by by John Aston, 1962 (National Portrait Gallery) #PaulineBoty #Photography #PopArt #ContemporaryArt

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#nowplaying This Can’t Be Today – American Psychedelia and The Paisley Underground 1977-88 @cherryredrecords.bsky.social

"He taught us to persevere, to look for the hope running beneath the surface of terrible events...even when hope seemed preposterous." "Lessons Rod Serling Taught Us" ~Steve Trimm

Remembering Nina Simone on her birthday youtu.be/JIagqz3Eraw

Setsuko Saturday

Little surprises me nowadays. But this story still managed to shock me.