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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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‘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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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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Thirty Wonderful Pictures of Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie was born at the Singlijan Tea Estate in Assam, India. Where her father Francis “Frank” St. John Christie ran a tea plantation there. She was a boarder at the independent Convent of Our Lady school in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, after being expelled from another convent school ...

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Human Clay: Lee Friedlander’s Intimate Portraits Of Famous Friends And Somebody’s Children

"You’ve found something that you like and you play with it for the rest of your life” - Lee Friedlander ...

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Architect Carlo Mollino’s Secret Stash of Erotic Polaroids (NSFW)

After Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino died in 1973, a large secret stash of erotic Polaroids were uncovered among his personal effects. In total some 1200 images of women posed wearing specially chosen clothes against artfully created backgrounds. No one was quite sure why Mollino had taken these pictures--a ...

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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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The Beatles At Abbey Road On September 12 1963 – Norman Parkinson’s Early Fab Four Photographs

"I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better" - Norman Parkinson ...

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Bruce Davidson Photographs At The Telfair Museums

"If I am looking for a story at all, it is in my relationship to the subject - the story that tells me, rather than that I tell" - Bruce Davidson ...

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Mary Rawls’ Life in the Circus: From Busking During the Great Depression to Walking the High Wire While Raising Eight Kids

Mythologized as much as the life of a rock star on the road, the lives of circus performers are sources of mystery, fear, humor, and romantic longing. Running away and joining the circus became a cliché for a reason. ...

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African Gaze: Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood Movie Posters from Ghana

"By turns provocative, startling, sexy, outrageous, lurid and playful, but always eye-catching and graphically inventive" ...

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David Bowie: Photographs of The Starman As A Child

"And then I fell in love with the Little Richard band. I never heard anything that lived in such bright colours in the air. It really just painted the whole room for me" - David Bowie ...

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