The DYR? Reading List

[jason h]

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Digital Retro
This is a fantastic coffee table book.

"Compatibility? Forget it! Each of these computers was its own machine and had no intention of talking to anything else. Much like their owners in fact, who passionately defended their machines with a belief verging on the religious.This book tells the story behind 40 classic home computers of an infamous decade, from the dreams and inspiration, through passionate inventors and corporate power struggles, to their final inevitable extinction, and subsequent worship by the nostalgic collectors market.

Digital Retro

is an essential read for anyone who owned a home computer in the Eighties."

The Great British Tuck Shop
Tons of full colour pictures of sweets, pop, crisps, etc., mainly from the 70s to the 90s.
"The ultimate book of sweetie nostalgia!
A colourful, witty and irreverent encyclopedia of all the sweets and crisps of your youth. From Mojos to Rainbow Drops, Space Raiders to Trios, Corona to Kia Ora and everything in between.
Fully illustrated with hundreds of wrappers, ads and specially recreated packshots this book will lead you down memory lane until you reach the corner shop, load up a 10p mix up bag and rot your teeth on the contents.
The authors have been given access to the archives, factories and warehouses of some of the leading sweet and snack manufacturers in the country and have delivered a book that is packed full of fascinating historical research…
… and lots and lots of sweets."

[battyrat]

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Eagle Annual,The best of the 50's comic and the best of the 60's comic,Daniel Tatarsky.Clips and articles from the famous Eagle comics including period competitions,adverts,etc.A really good pair coffee table books just right for a light browse.

[HG]

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Don't think its been mentioned already but one of my favourite books is 'Where did it all go right? Growing up in the 70's' by Andrew Collins:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Did-It...1882537&sr=8-1

Nicely nostalgic, also there is an 80's version when he's a bit older and at College / Uni:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heaven-Knows...882687&sr=1-24

Both excellent books.

Yeah I agree, I have Where Did it All Go Right? lots of memories similar to my own from the 70s, well worth a read!

[Jabbso]

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Don't think its been mentioned already but one of my favourite books is 'Where did it all go right? Growing up in the 70's' by Andrew Collins:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Did-It...1882537&sr=8-1

Nicely nostalgic, also there is an 80's version when he's a bit older and at College / Uni:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heaven-Knows...882687&sr=1-24

Both excellent books.

[sixtyten]

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It has been mentioned, but on another thread. While its a great book, I really don't like the computer rendered images of the productions.

[Austin Maxi]

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To answer a question someone asked a few posts back, I've been to Robert Opie's 'Museum of Brands, Advertising & Packaging' (twice) and it's well worth going to. I can guarantee you'll spend a while looking at all of the crisp packets in the '70s section, and who could resist a look at a packet of Wavy Line Washing Powder! I also have the 1960s amd 1970s Scrapbooks, which I've spent a long time looking through, and the 'Remember When' book by Robert Opie takes you through the whole era covered by the museum.

I'm surprised that no-one has yet mentioned 'The Great British Tuck Shop' by Steve Berry & Phil Norman. It's a treasure trove of old sweets, crisps, ice lollies and fizzy drinks form the '70s and '80s in particular. There's old wrapper designs and screen shots from some of the adverts for them from back then. Well worth getting, and I think some supermarkets are selling it quite cheaply now.

[sixtyten]

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Just picked up a slim tome called The Tonibell Story. Looks an interesting read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Tonibell.../dp/1908347031

[victorbrunswick]

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Warman's Matchbox Field Guide by Tom Larson
(Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 2008)

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-1960...941027&sr=8-13

Arthur Ward's Classic Toys of the 1960s and 1970s

its a great book. Love the photos and anecdotes and nice bits of trivia about the toy companies of old. Lots of nice photos too. He's also done a book on TV and Film Toys and Ephemera

which I haven't bought yet but may well do....I might get the TV CREAM TOYS: PRESENTS YOU PESTERED YOUR PARENTS FOR...

[battyrat]

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One very good book is The Hill and Beyond,childrens television drama-an encyclopedia by Alistair D.Mcgown and Mark J.Docherty.Its an encyclopedia on british made childrens drama for telly between 1950 and 2000.

It's a great read,but I tend to use it more for reference just dipping in and out when needed.Around some 300 dramas are recorded in there from the more commonly remembered ones to ones that most people will have long forgotten.It is published through the british film institute.Was untill recently quite an expensive book but shopping around it can be had quite cheeply now.It is possibly the only book to deal fully with british Childrens drama out there,so a vital read for anybody who like me remembers the likes of timeslip,children of the stones,sky,tomorrows people,etc.

[victorbrunswick]

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Also...

"What Made Thunderbirds Go!: The Authorised Biography of Gerry Anderson" by Simon Archer & Marcus Hearn, 2002

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I've got two of Robert Opie's Scrapbooks - the 1950s and the 1970s. They'll probably be a 1980s one out soon.

Robert Opie should really be the patron saint of this whole forum: he's the king of British nostalgia. Has anyone visited his Museum of Packaging in London, or the previous one in Gloucester?

I met him once, when I was working in the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol (which has since relocated to London). He was invited there, along with 200 others, as a guest at the official opening of the museum in 2002, because he'd donated some things to the museum (exhibits, not money). Although I didn't know what he looked like, I recognised him as soon as I saw him, because he was wearing a tie with pictures of some of those vintage products on it. I talked to him for a few minutes, and he assured me that his collection was still growing!

I agree with you on Robert Opie, he's a bit of a visionary knowing to collect all that stuff knowing people would be fascinated by it in the future.

I hope to go to the museum of pacakaging and brands when visiting London in September, can't wait.

[victorbrunswick]

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Some of the titles from my own library:

"Eric Morecambe Unseen: The Lost Diaries, Jokes and Photographs" by William Cook (editor),( London: Harper Collins Entertainment, 2005)
"Hal Lifson's 1966!: A Personal View of The Coolest Year in Pop Culture History" by Hal Lifson, (Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002)
"The Elite Redline Guide: Hot Wheels 1968-1977: Identification & Values" by Jack Clark & Sid Belzberg, (Silver Car Publishing, 2010)
"The London Transport Golden Jubilee Book, 1933-1983" by Oliver Green & John Reed, (London: The Daily Telegraph, 1983)
"The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste: A Celebration of American Pop Culture at its Most Joyfully Outrageous" by Jane & Michael Stern, (New York: Harper Collins, 1990)

[sixtyten]

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Mrs Slocombe's *****- Growing up in front of the Telly, by Stuart Jeffries

[Marillion]

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I've got two of Robert Opie's Scrapbooks - the 1950s and the 1970s. They'll probably be a 1980s one out soon.

Robert Opie should really be the patron saint of this whole forum: he's the king of British nostalgia. Has anyone visited his Museum of Packaging in London, or the previous one in Gloucester?

I met him once, when I was working in the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol (which has since relocated to London). He was invited there, along with 200 others, as a guest at the official opening of the museum in 2002, because he'd donated some things to the museum (exhibits, not money). Although I didn't know what he looked like, I recognised him as soon as I saw him, because he was wearing a tie with pictures of some of those vintage products on it. I talked to him for a few minutes, and he assured me that his collection was still growing!