Spare Rib, every issue now online

[alsoknownas]

Spare Rib, women's lib magazine has had it's whole run made available online. It ran from 1972 - 1993 and it's covers were basically everywhere that my childhood went. Funny to see that it sold for 17 and a half pence.

Project here:
http://www.bl.uk/spare-rib

Archive here:
https://journalarchives.jisc.ac.uk/britishlibrary/sparerib

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I never saw a copy of this in my childhood, but heard about it when I was an adult. Downloaded the copy from the month I was born to see what it's like.

 

[Pickman's model]

I never saw a copy of this in my childhood, but heard about it when I was an adult. Downloaded the copy from the month I was born to see what it's like.

it wasn't going in 1936

 

[farmerbarleymow]

it wasn't going in 1936

Shut it, you young whippersnapper.

 

[Sea Star]

I never saw a copy of this in my childhood, but heard about it when I was an adult. Downloaded the copy from the month I was born to see what it's like.

OMG! Are you younger than me?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

OMG! Are you younger than me?

I suspect that where I grew up wasn't particularly liberal in the 70s/80s, so the normal publications people bought were the Daily Mirror, Evening Gazette and Northern Echo. The only magazines aimed at women were stuff like Women's Own.

 

[crossthebreeze]

Fantastic - a really interesting slice of feminist history! - i never saw a copy of this until i was an adult, but was vaguely aware that it existed around the last year it was printed (when i was about 12/13) - it wasn't the kind of magazine anyone i was around when i was growing up would have ever read either

 

[danny la rouge]

I never saw a copy of this in my childhood, but heard about it when I was an adult. Downloaded the copy from the month I was born to see what it's like.

No, it wasn't something that lay around our house either. Or was to be found in the local shops. But I remember it as a student in the 80s.

It'd be interesting to read issues from that time to for comparison.

 

[Citizen66]

Cheers. I've shared.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

No, it wasn't something that lay around our house either. Or was to be found in the local shops. But I remember it as a student in the 80s.

It'd be interesting to read issues from that time to for comparison.

Teesside when I was growing up in the 70s/80s was anything but liberal. I remember when Sainsbury's opened a superstore in the Boro in the late 80s it was seen as very exotic. WTF is couscous, you heard the Teesside people roar.

 

[danny la rouge]

Teesside when I was growing up in the 70s/80s was anything but liberal. I remember when Sainsbury's opened a superstore in the Boro in the late 80s it was seen as very exotic. WTF is couscous, you heard the Teesside people roar.

You had couscous in the 80s? Southern jessies.

I'd never even seen a parsnip until 1994. (This is actually true).

 

[Citizen66]

Teesside when I was growing up in the 70s/80s was anything but liberal. I remember when Sainsbury's opened a superstore in the Boro in the late 80s it was seen as very exotic. WTF is couscous, you heard the Teesside people roar.

It was all about Hintons and Savacentre.

 

[Belushi]

I don't think I'd heard of couscous until the mid 90's.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You had couscous in the 80s? Southern jessies.

I'd never even seen a parsnip until 1994. (This is actually true).

(((poor Scottish people)))

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It was all about Hintons and Savacentre.

God, I remember Hintons. I think there used to be branch next to my primary school - Norton Board Primary - and that was rebadged to Presto when the company changed hands. We used to throw stuff over the wall into their loading bay at break times.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Actually, it is pretty inconveivable that Scottish people didn't have complete knowledge of the root vegetable world since the country was invented, danny la rouge.

 

[Citizen66]

Seeing as this is going a bit prolier than thou: people look at me like I'm proper flat caps and whippets daan saaf because we used turnips instead of pumpkins at Halloween, farmerbarleymow

Americanised twats.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Seeing as this is going a bit prolier than thou: people look at me like I'm proper flat caps and whippets daan saaf because we used turnips instead of pumpkins at Halloween, farmerbarleymow

Americanised twats.

We always used turnips too - to be fair, it was probably more to do with me tight-fisted Scottish mam wanting to use the innards for stew than anything else.

We were bloody slaves when we were kids, hollowing out turnips with spoons.

 

[Citizen66]

Everyone did afaik. I'm guessing pumpkins were too exotic to market at the time or something.

 

[danny la rouge]

Actually, it is pretty inconveivable that Scottish people didn't have complete knowledge of the root vegetable world since the country was invented, danny la rouge.

I'd had turnips, carrots, potatoes. I'd heard tell of parsnips, but the first time I tasted one was the Christmas of 1994, the first one I spent at Mrs La Rouge's Mum's.

I also hadn't had a salad dressing until I met Mrs La Rouge, with her fancy southern ways from Stoke-on-Trent. Salad for me growing up was naked lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber. Sometimes pickled onions. I remember asking Mrs La Rouge "what's this sauce on the salad?", to much amusement.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'd had turnips, carrots, potatoes. I'd heard tell of parsnips, but the first time I tasted one was the Christmas of 1994, the first one I spent at Mrs La Rouge's Mum's.

I also hadn't had a salad dressing until I met Mrs La Rouge, with her fancy southern ways from Stoke-on-Trent. Salad for me growing up was naked lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber. Sometimes pickled onions. I remember asking Mrs La Rouge "what's this sauce on the salad?", to much amusement.

Salad was the same for me too. It confused me when I read about vinaigrette in cookbooks once I'd left home. Much like garlic - a strange and mysterious thing indeed.

 

[Citizen66]

I'd had turnips, carrots, potatoes. I'd heard tell of parsnips, but the first time I tasted one was the Christmas of 1994, the first one I spent at Mrs La Rouge's Mum's.

I also hadn't had a salad dressing until I met Mrs La Rouge, with her fancy southern ways from Stoke-on-Trent. Salad for me growing up was naked lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber. Sometimes pickled onions. I remember asking Mrs La Rouge "what's this sauce on the salad?", to much amusement.

We were a bit more daring. We used to get served salad drenched in malt vinegar.

 

[danny la rouge]

at men taking over the discussion with what they want to talk about. (Recipes).

 

[Casually Red]

That thing was always lying about our house . Don't remember any decent recipes in it though .

 

[JimW]

Used to buy a copy in WH Smiths occasionally. Not sure who I was trying to impress. And I had some books off that women's press with the black and white diagonal stripes on the spine whose name escapes me.

 

[catinthehat]

My Mum went to an evening class called 'Continental Cookery' in the early 70's. I remember one evening she brought home pizza and some of my mates were with me - I got teased for ages about my Mum making 'Fishbread with black things' (olives/anchovies). I had forgotten about it till now and have the urge to seek them out point out that we were not weird but ahead of the curve.

 

[Citizen66]

Tbf anchovies are the worst pizza topping ever.

 

[cesare]

Used to buy a copy in WH Smiths occasionally. Not sure who I was trying to impress. And I had some books off that women's press with the black and white diagonal stripes on the spine whose name escapes me.

I'd never heard of Spare Rib until a couple of years ago courtesy of urban (The39thStep ) but button says the big WH Smiths in Hull used to stock it - on the top shelf with Sanity and Marxism Today, and next to all the porn.

 

[JimW]

I'd never heard of Spare Rib until a couple of years ago courtesy of urban (The39thStep ) but button says the big WH Smiths in Hull used to stock it - on the top shelf with Sanity and Marxism Today, and next to all the porn.

They had Marxism Today too now you mention it and I bought that sometimes too. This was Stroud which might explain it

 

[jannerboyuk]

They sold both Marxism Today and Spare Rib in Whsmith in Plymouth n all, used to enjoy both back in the day