"By the 1980s, Barbie starts to creep in. "Many more girls in the 1980s were asking for things like make-up and miniskirts, while in the 1970s it was the same as the boys - toys and books." ...

Shoppers have flocked to a charity shop for its annual January extravaganza where items on sale included a collectable Barbie doll by ... Sir David Attenborough books, collectable vinyl records ...

Journalist and lifelong Barbie fan Emily Tamkin talks us through Ken’s development, or lack thereof, over the decades. Read Emily’s “A Cultural History of Barbie,” and Chris’s brief Ken ...