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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

Here's a thread for @Tesco @FandFclothing to show that - amazingly! - women and girls like insects too. Raft spider. (I know spiders aren't insects, but this thread is embracing

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

You know I often do little threads about the messages on boys' and girls' clothes, like @letclothesbe does. And I was going to do another one today, but then I

While I'm on the subject of @Matalan, let's have a peep at their children's clothing. First, what messages are boys getting about themselves? Well, they're superheroes. Boys like gaming! Tech!

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

The wonderful, revolutionary thing about J17 was the no-nonsense, feminist problem page. Until then, girls writing in to magazines to say they were being pressured for sex by older men

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

Here's a thread about the way we label boys as trouble. We literally label boys as loud, troublesome, naughty from the moment they're born, before they can lift up their

Voles. Well, they are being super-coy at the moment, and I waited an hour and a half to get a glimpse of this nose. That was it for the evening.

#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

A while ago, a friend sent me this video clip from the excellent programme The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds. https://youtu.be/KD9-jnLD4lY In it, a group of boys and then a