The 1950’s is a decade that still captivates people, with significant events in history taking place such as the civil rights movement, in the musical world there was the birth of rock and roll with Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley and through Hollywood the style icons of Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor influenced the fashion industry. Commercial television also appeared and had a significant impact exposing society as a whole to a much wider range of enter[...]
Read More Browse Shop“The Sixties” is the term used to describe a decade that is remembered for its counterculture and revolution in areas such as music, fashion, sexuality, formality, drugs and social taboos as a whole. It was flamboyant and excessive in comparison to previous decades, with London playing a central part in the cultural change, on a backdrop of an economic boom, baby boom and political confrontation between the developing superpowers of the US and Soviet Union. In music it was the lik[...]
Read More Browse ShopThe 1970’s is well and truly our era, as a child of 1973 largely oblivious to ongoing economic change, a 3 day week, Vietnam War and election of the first female prime minister in the UK, it was the long hot summer of 1976, silver jubilee celebrations, music, fashion, film and toys that really changed the world. In music it was the decade that saw the rise of disco and pop with the likes of ABBA, The Bee Gees, The Jackson 5, The Osmonds, Elton John and Village People creating their very[...]
Read More Browse ShopThe 1980’s was the decade where science and technology reached groundbreaking levels, impacting all areas of everyday life, space exploration continued to capture the imagination and other groundbreaking events took place such as Live Aid and the fall of the Berlin Wall were examples of a changing world.. In the Cinema we had 3D glasses making there first appearance and who can forget the paper version with the red and blue lens, along with a plethora of films such as Ghostbusters, Indi[...]
Read More Browse ShopThe 1990’s was the decade that saw a revolution in digital technology, with the invention of the world wide web, the growth in personal computer usage and the evolution of the cell phone. Email communication takes a grip, e-commerce companies start to grow rapidly and with the introduction of smaller more affordable satellite dishes then TV Channels explode to new levels. 24 hour news reporting was a new phenomenon started by reporting on the Gulf War, the Hubble Space Telescope launche[...]
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