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1962: Her complicated love life

Mobile phones make this much simpler. She can make all these decisions effective without her mother taking an active part.

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1974: domestic crisis

If she was really berserk, she would not have left this message.

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1965: A typical sixties scene…

There really was a host of different protest groups active at the time.

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I've never been on a protest march Mr Magoo perhaps I should consider one Happy Christmas

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And a happy Christmas to you summer.

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1965: Another attempt at irony

The two observers are shown as middle-class black citizens observing a demagogue stirring up trouble among the masses. It is a quite brave attempt at humour in the face of a civil rights movement in America.

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1965: Cold War ‘warriors’

In the face of an arms race between the Soviet Union and the West we see senior American airmen who are very keen on all that weaponry. It all seems out of date to us – but there is now a niggling worry about the international future.

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1960: A surreal look at a delicatessen outlet

The artist known as ‘ffolkes’ was a prolific contributor to Punch and various other publications. Showing the shopkeeper as a mincing machine is of course absurd yet it does make an impression.

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1966: ‘Rewarded’ for a good deed

The recipients of the neighbour’s help seem to be uninclined to return the favour. There are many people like that in the world today.

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1967: Life imitating art

The vivid style shown in the work of ‘art’ has been reflected in the real world.