Booming Fifties, Swinging Sixties
What was the popular culture of science like in Britain, in the fifties and sixties? The Science Museum has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to…
What was the popular culture of science like in Britain, in the fifties and sixties? The Science Museum has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to…
…And of course, they have made the ‘selfie’ possible. The story began more than three decades ago, without a photograph in sight. New Jersey in the swinging sixties was a…
…through the NHS in the 1960s. This revolutionary contraceptive allowed women to control their own fertility, dramatically contributing to women’s liberation and to the sexual freedom of the so-called “Swinging…
…Photo by the author. Through my interest in fashion history, I knew the address was also once home to the original Biba boutique. Biba was well-known in swinging sixties Britain…