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April 1970: Chelsea Fans Waiting for the FA Cup Winners to Arrive at Euston Station

In 1997 a modern-day referee David Elleray reviewed the replay played at Old Trafford, and concluded that the sides would have received six red cards and twenty yellow cards between them, in the modern era of football. ...

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‘Elswick Kids’ – Extraordinary Photos by the Late Tish Murtha

Her images capture the joy and freedom of childhood at a time when it was normal to play out in the street, in a way that has been largely lost today. ...

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Errol Flynn, And His Girlfriend Beverly Aadland

I earned seven million dollars for brandishing a sword, riding a horse and screaming ‘Charge!’ I did not deserve it, but I certainly didn’t mind spending it. The public has always expected me to be a playboy and a decent chap never lets his public down. ...

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The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

“It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...

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Queen’s Extraordinary After-Show Party At Kensington Roof Gardens (1986)

"As soon as you got into the lift there were naked women painted green, like a forest. They had midgets with little trays of drinks" - Samantha Fox ...

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You’re the Top! The Connection Between Socialite Mrs Sweeny, PG Wodehouse and Mussolini

Margaret used to see one man for dinner, plead tiredness and go home, only then to go out with another young man to the Embassy Club or the Café de Paris. At closing hour she and her partner would then ‘float on’ to late nightclubs such as Kate Meyrick’s Silver Slipper. Her father’s only rule was that she absolutely must be dressed for the family breakfast at nine. ...

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Koen Wessing: The Indelible Image of Post-War Conflict

'You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on' - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable ...

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“God Forever, The Beatles Never” – When Lennon Compared the Beatles to Jesus in 1966

My life with the Beatles had become a trap. I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus. ...

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Arlington Gregg For The Federal Project Number One (1936 – 1939)

Part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal was the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which in 1935 created the Federal Project Number One to help artists, actors, writers, and musicians get work. ...

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Elizabeth Cobbold’s Papercut Invitations to her Annual St Valentine’s Day Ball – 18th Century

'Eliza to William this Valentine sends / While ev'ry good wish on the present attends / And freely she writes undisturb'd by a fear / Tho' prudes may look scornful, and, libertines sneer' - Elizabeth Cobbold to her new husband ...

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How Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Japanese Prints Inspired His ‘Art of the Future’

"All my work is based to some extent on Japanese art" - Van Gogh ...

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The Paratrooper’s Selfies : Snapshots Whilst Falling to Earth in 1944

In 1944, Picture Post photographer Haywood Magee boarded an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber at RAF Ringway, Cheshire, England. Already onboard were men of the 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment. As one paratrooper prepared to jump, Magee handed him a camera with the instructions to aim it at his face, don’t drop the thing, and click. ...

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Photos of Barcelona in 1890s, on the Eve of the City’s Modernist Revolution

In the early 19th century, after waves of industrialisation, Barcelona became known as the “The Catalan Manchester” and “The Factory of Spain.” Despite rising population its walls prevented the city from expanding and it swelled into one of the most crowded cities in Europe. Finally, city leaders resolved to tear down the city’s walls, under a plan devised by civil engineer Ildefons Cerdà. ...

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The Liverpool School Strike In Glorious Photos – 1985

"There were speeches back at the pier head but I can't remember a single one of them. I was just filled with the feeling that being on strike was far better than being in school" ...

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Jah Wobble Talks Bohemian Chelsea, Aswad, Hawkwind, Punk and Sid Vicious

This is nice; pal and fellow Chelsea Arts Club member John Wardle talks about the importance of the immediate neighbourhood, its artistic tradition going back to the likes of Whistler, the licentiousness of the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens in Victorian times, the Bohemian atmosphere engendered by the 70s slums around the Lots Road Power Station and how all of this combined to create the breeding ground for punk. ...

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Wonderful Photos and Films from the Golden Age of BBC Radio

On 1 January 1927 the British Broadcasting Corporation began broadcasting to the nation. No other radio broadcasting organisation was licensed in the UK until 1973 ...

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Watergate Courtroom Sketches by Freda L. Reiter: Drawing Nixon and The President’s Men 1973–75

"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue” - Richard Nixon ...

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