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Girls growing up in very different circumstances navigated the possibilities and pitfalls of the 1960s and early 1970s in very different ways.
Regarded as one of The Beatles finest albums, Abbey Road is the last time all four band members were in the studio together.
Possessed of one of the most distinctive voices in pop music, Scott Walker’s avant-garde aesthetic and skill as a composer made him an enduring and influential artist over more than 40 years.
Joe Orton’s final play, a savage parody of social attitudes to sexual coercion, could have been written for the #MeToo generation.
This exhibition is perfectly timed – feminism and fashion need Mary Quant now more than ever.
Fifty years after its release, the Beatles’ White Album continues to inspire and provoke creativity.
The folklore of the Krays is recast in order to shine light on current attitudes toward crime deviance and in particular, violence.
It’s become fashionable to blame those born in the post-war baby boom for all today’s economic woes. But this is unfair – and wrong.
Psychedelia is too often dismissed as a product of the decade and the drugs, but the phenomenon has a far richer history than that of the swinging 60s.
The first film to see The Beatles in technicolour is 50 years old.
The actor always said that John Steed was a slightly exaggerated version of himself.
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