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- April 15, 2009 44659
Tattooed mummies
Early tattooed finds. In 1972 eight mummies (dated A.D. 1475) were found in Qllakitsoq, Greenland – and five of the six adult women and two children had blue and black tattoo marks on their face’s.
These tattooed marks consisting of...
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- April 15, 2009 140045
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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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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- April 15, 2009 64197
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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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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- April 09, 2009 132511
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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- April 02, 2009 93308
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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- March 31, 2009 109373
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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- March 31, 2009 96908
Paul Sayce
Paul Sayce will be writing articles for this site here are a few facts about him. Since walking into Rob Robinson’s tattoo surgery in New Malden, Surrey, England in the mid 1970’s Paul Sayce has never looked back.
Where with just a simple...
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- January 24, 2009 17081
A Tattoo Is For Life:-
A Sociological Study Of The Changing Significance Of Tattoos. By Tony Lawrence BA Hons. Dip. Com Ed. Graduate from the University of Stirling and Edinburgh.
Examining the Evolving Cultural and Social Meaning of Tattoos
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