Rare Vintage INTERNATIONAL TIMES Magazine / Newspaper

no. 58

13 - 28 June 1969

Magazine is complete.

Good vintage condition.

Some wear and minor tears especially on the spine side and page edges.

Page edges tanned with age.

UK mainland P&P is FREE!

(Will be posted folded once)

The International Times, or IT as it became known, was Britain’s – and Europe’s – first underground newspaper, a radical weekly publication which covered art, literature, politics and news of alternative lifestyles. The paper was launched in October 1966 with a huge gig at the Roundhouse; with Pink Floyd and Soft Machine playing, this was a seminal event which signalled the burgeoning of the new counter-culture in Britain.

As the British counter-culture grew, IT covered many alternative topics including articles on ley lines, Eastern mysticism, vegetarianism, communal living and, of course, drugs; the paper provoked controversy by including the street prices of LSD and marijuana.

Unsurprisingly, IT fell foul of the establishment and was subject to a number of police raids!