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Read more »Tattooing on BBC TV
Tattooing first appeared on the BBC in the 1930s, marking an important moment for the art form on British television. The very first tattoo artist to be featured on BBC TV was George Burchett, a well-known tattooer from Brighton. He...
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Read more »Tattooing banished
The banning of tattooing marks.
In A.D.325 Emperor Constantine the Great, banned facial tattoos among Christian’s living in the Roman Empire. As it disfigured what was fashioned in God’s image. And in 787AD the British council of churches...
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Read more »Charles Darwin writes of tattooing
Famed English naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) who not only upset religious groups and scholars throughout the civilized world with his thoughts on evolution (that man descended from a lower animal form)...
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Read more »William Dampier brings back to England a tattooed man
After the Church banned the tattoo in 787AD – there was not much in evidence regarding tattooing in Britain in the forthcoming years, and we had to wait until 1691, when the tales of William Dampier...
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Read more »Janet Rusty Skuse – A true great of British tattooing history
Before she became the wife of British tattoo artist Bill Skuse. Rusty was plain old Janet (Rusty) Fields Having her first tattoo in 1961 – (which saw her put on a charge when her employers...
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Read more »Krystyne The Kolorful
Krystyne the Kolorful who for many years appeared in the Guinness book of records as the world's most tattooed woman. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Curly Allen did her first professional tattoo of a butterfly on...
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Read more »Human Skin Collection Tokyo, Japan
The Pathology Department of Tokyo University, has the largest collection of tattooed human skin in the world. Dr Masaichi Fukushi – Doctor of Medicine and founder of the tattooed skin collection that is housed in the...
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