Although we may not think of credit cards as a gender equality issue today, it wasn’t until 1974 that women were allowed to apply for and own a credit card in their name. In this article, we’ll take a ...

If fashion trends come around so can food trends. These are several 1970s food trends that deserve to return. Maybe you can ...

[Editor's note: Welcome to LGBTQ History Month! This is one of several articles we will be publishing on various aspects of LGBTQ history during October. Some, like this one, are in partnership with ...

To judge by recent Supreme Court decisions, the world didn’t know much about climate change a half century ago. In 2007, when the court ruled that the Clean Air Act of 1970 gave the Environmental ...

Ben Highmore receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. As an expert in media and cultural studies, I once appeared in a television series about technology in the home during the last three decades ...