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Kate Long
volewriter
I didn't do the #VintageMagTweets last night because of an incident with some dodgy chicken. But today I am bright and bushy-tailed again, and ready to go. This thread, which
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Kate Long
volewriter
I'm doing #VintageMagTweets early today as I have some vole business this evening. I thought I'd look at the strange world of cigarette adverts from the late 70s/early 80s.Here's a
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Kate Long
volewriter
Anyhoo, it being Easter, I'm going to treat you to some extra #VintageMagTweets stuff. I'm going to call this thread, NO, DON'T DO THAT! DON'T take your dad's string vest
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Kate Long
volewriter
Tonight's #VintageMagTweets look at this book by Dena Attar, published in 1990. This seems to be the staring point for domestic science/home economics: that God created woman to provide a
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Kate Long
volewriter
Today's #VintageMagTweets are about the way women in politics are spoken of in the media. The clippings all come from the 70s or 80s. Can you imagine a similar headline
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Kate Long
volewriter
Tonight's #VintageMagTweets are about Petticoat. It ran between 66 and 75 and, for all the twee name, was regarded as a bit racy because the problem pages were unusually frank.
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Kate Long
volewriter
OK, some of you were talking about the magazine Just 17 last week. I promised a #VintageMagTweets thread on it, so here we are.However, the focus is on sexual assault
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Kate Long
volewriter
Tonight's #VintageMagTweets come from the American magazine Lesbian Tide, later Tide. Here is its remit. I'm not sure who H & T were, but I think this is probably a
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Kate Long
volewriter
Tonight's #VintageMagTweets are from a 1982 magazine called Options. It's not a title I knew. A reminder that people did drink and drive, and initially found the new legislation an
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Kate Long
volewriter
Tonight's #VintageMagTweets come from a 1975 edition of Nova. Nova was a British women's glossy magazine that was published from March 1965 to October 1975, and was regarded as quite
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Kate Long
volewriter
OK, #VintageMagTweets tonight are about how we ladies are just naturally feeble in our innate womanliness, and can never cross the confines of our small, soft ladybrains. A woman's crowning
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Kate Long
volewriter
#VintageMagTweets come today from this fascinating New jersey analysis of reading books for children. The original experiment took place in 1972, but there's an update in this 1975 edition.The fact
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Kate Long
volewriter
#VintageMagTweets tonight come from this Punch book of Women's Rights. The publishing date is 1967. It's a straightforward look at the history of female rights up to and including suffrage.
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Kate Long
volewriter
I said I'd start a thread called #ThankABoomer where I looked at aspects of life that have got better specifically because women in that cohort fought really hard against sexism.
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