Tag: history
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As it is Non League day today we take another fanzine dip down the leagues with the 50p, 32 page issue 19 of Basingstoke’s amalgamated fanzines from October 1993, great detail on the cover lads. The cover also reveals a…
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Following on from my post earlier in the week we revisit Pollok for issue 10 of Fulton, One-nil from 1991, a #FloodlightFriday adventure and our 2nd Voyage of Discovery. These are the days well before drones were even a twinkle…
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August 1981, MTV went live for the first time. (Everyone knows the first track played but what about the second?) In his pre-Glasnost era President Reagan gave the go-ahead for U.S. production of the neutron bomb, and IBM introduced the first…
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Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is another belter from Scottish Junior football, issue 2 of Fulton, One-nil from Newlands / Glasgow giants Pollok FC. Produced in 1990 with the classic A5 photocopied format and 2 staples (They would revert to one for later…
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In honour of today’s Tyne-Wear derby we take a trip back to October 1989 and issue 4 of the venerable old gentleman that still is A Love Supreme from Sunderland..though it was actually based in Newcastle back then. Tremendous cover,…
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Tuesday this week, 17th March was a special day for some as it marked the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of a young scallywag called Dennis the Menace. Beside the obvious trouble making antics why is this important to…
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We move to the flatlands of East Anglia for today’s #FanzineoftheDay with issue 81 of Those Were the Days or TWTD.co.uk as the cover displays along with the date, March 2006 an the price £1.50…a curators dream. Bit miffed at…
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This week’s #FloodlightFriday comes from Brentford’s Beesotted issue 39 in 1996. Simple but effective today; A picture of the “long established” Springfield Park’s boundary wall with the floodlights rising majestically above, all in black and white obviously. The caption inserted…
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It’s all about fandom nowadays, fandom this, fandom that but what does that word mean? It’s has only really come into common use in the past 20 years. As a noun it’s definition is “the state or condition of being…
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Today’s #FOTD is issue 5 of long running Leeds fanzine The Hanging Sheep and comes with an ulterior motive. First though, let’s have a look through the excellent contents of this 40p belter from April 1989. The cover has the…
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