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Charles Conder: The Bohemian from Down Under–Sex, Disease, Pernod and Painting

The great antipodean actor, writer, genius surrealist comic performer, father and mother of Dame Edna Everage, inventor and cousin twice removed to Sir Les Patterson, Mr. Barry Humphries has long been a fan of the artist Charles Conder. ...

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From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

Like many other photographers at the time, Genthe documented everything. He was a portrait photographer, a photo-journalist, and an artist. ...

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Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

His looks fascinated people and he became an iconic cult figure with horror buffs. ...

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Émile Zola’s Photographs of Turn-of-the-Century Paris

I dare… to tell the truth, with all the force born of the revulsion of an honest man, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so. - Émile Zola ...

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The Horror, The Horror! Dark and Disturbing Paintings of Death and Disease

At one point in his life, Richard Tennant Cooper had dreams of some day being recognised as one of the best artists in the world. ...

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Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and ...

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“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

A ‘centre of gaiety’ as one 1930s guide book put it, where thousands and thousands of people and almost as many cars ‘struggle in vain for freedom’. ...

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Nazis, Traitors and Bloody Murderers – The Astonishing History of London’s Poshest Square

Owned by Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke of Westminster and the world’s richest person under thirty, the land came into the family when his ancestor, Sir Thomas Grosvenor, married a 12 year old girl called Mary Davis in 1677. ...

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New York City Crowds In The Early And Mid 20th Century

Photographs of crowds of people in the city that never sleeps ...

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Alma Mahler : The Muse Who Married Three Brilliant Men And Became A Jealous Artist’s Swan-Skin Love Doll

The woman who shagged the brightest brains of central Europe and drove a former lover to an act of memorable nuttiness ...

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The Other Suffragettes: the Women Who Kept Fighting for the Right to Vote After the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Passed

“The contributions of Asian American, Latina, and Native American suffragists are just beginning to be examined by scholars,” writes the Library of Congress, “but there is still much work to be done regarding all women of color.” ...

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A Brief History of Hand-washing: How a Basic Hygienic Practice Took Decades to Catch On

The history of handwashing involves far more than a change in personal habits over time, but a shift in the understanding of the state’s role in public health. ...

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