


Homes for Indian nannies

Sherlock Holmes

Christabel Pankhurst

Suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh

Captain Scott's Diary

Suffragettes protest

Indians on the Western Front

World War I

Wilfred Owen: WWI poetry

Russian Revolution

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

The General Strike

The Great Depression

Gandhi in Britain

British Union of Fascists

Appeasement

Kristallnacht

Wanted poster for Hitler

World War II ultimatum letter

The Keys

Dunkirk evacuation

Dig for Victory

Make Do and Mend

Auschwitz survivor

The Atom Bomb

Independence and Partition

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

NHS established

Immigration from India

Windrush: post-war immigration

Chinese restaurants

Middle Eastern food

Wolfenden Report

Paul Robeson's Othello

Man lands on the moon

Cuban Missile Crisis

Assassination of Kennedy

Beatles arrive in the USA

Mods and Rockers

England win the World Cup

Robert Kennedy Assassinated

Dr. Martin Luther King

Student protests, Paris

Women's liberation

Punk fanzine

The Oz trial

The Black Panther

President Nixon resigns

The Sex Pistols

Charles and Diana marry

Tiananmen Square massacre

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Release of Nelson Mandela

Peace declared: Northern Ireland

The Belfast Agreement
Sniffin Glue, the first punk fanzine, was produced by Mark Perry in July 1976 a few days after seeing US punk band The Ramones for the first time at the Roundhouse in London. He took the title from a Ramones song 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue'. Perry's fanzine was the perfect punk form. It reported the moment immediately as it happened, from an insider's point of view. Because Perry used everyday tools that were immediately to hand, Sniffin' Glue fitted with the do-it-yourself ethos which was already an important part of punk culture. A flood of punk zines followed, with identifiable cut and paste graphics, typewritten or felt tip text, misspellings and crossings out. Photocopying also contributed to the punk zine look by limiting graphic experimentation to black and white tones and imagery based on collage, enlargement and reduction. Sniffin' Glue demonstrated that anyone could easily, cheaply and quickly produce a fanzine.