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The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander

The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander

In the early 1920s Sander began People of the 20th Century – one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of photography, the project occupied Sander for some 40 years, from the early 1920s until his death, during which he took portraits of hundreds of German citizens and then categorised them by social type and occupation. ...
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When Albert Pierrepoint met Lord Haw-Haw, Albeit Rather Briefly

When Albert Pierrepoint met Lord Haw-Haw, Albeit Rather Briefly

William Joyce, the man with the infamous nickname ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, had a catchphrase as famous as any comedian’s, and had a facial disfigurement in the form of a terrible scar that marked him as a ‘treacherous villain’ as if the words themselves were tattooed across his forehead. ...
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London Waterloo Station in Pictures

London Waterloo Station in Pictures

We got to Waterloo at eleven, and asked where the eleven-five started from. Of course nobody knew; nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it. - Three Men in a Boat' ...
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Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Her voice, slightly off-key, was that of the Parisian street hawkers—the husky, trailing voice of the Paris people. She was of the animal race that owes nothing to intellectualism. She incarnated herself. She flattered a French patriotism that was not shameful. It is normal now that she should crumble, like the other caryatids of that great and marvellous epoch that was ours. ...
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Freckles Removal Between the Wars

Freckles Removal Between the Wars

"Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt" - Dorothy Parker (The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker) ...
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‘Disgraceful Orgies’, ‘Unholy Rites’ and the Death of Billie Carleton 100 Years Ago

‘Disgraceful Orgies’, ‘Unholy Rites’ and the Death of Billie Carleton 100 Years Ago

One hundred years ago and two weeks after the end of World War One, Billie Carleton, the youngest leading lady in the West End, died of a drug overdose. The ramifications of which lasted for decades... ...
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The Extraordinary Lee Miller: Fashion Model, Surrealist Muse, Photographer & War Correspondent

The Extraordinary Lee Miller: Fashion Model, Surrealist Muse, Photographer & War Correspondent

The life of model, photographer, and artist Lee Miller is so extraordinary it’s almost hard to believe one person lived it all. ...
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Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

'I choose weird stories because they suit my inclination best—one of my strongest and most persistent wishes being to achieve, momentarily, the illusion of some strange suspension or violation of the galling limitations of time, space, and natural law which for ever imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite cosmic spaces beyond the radius of our sight and analysis' - H.P.Lovercraft ...
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Glorious Pictures of the Scandalous Chelsea Arts Club Ball: (1908-1958)

Glorious Pictures of the Scandalous Chelsea Arts Club Ball: (1908-1958)

How good a do was the Chelsea Arts Club Ball? Answer: very. The London ball was a highlight of the social calendar, a New Year’s Eve fancy dress extravaganza. ...
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Louis Wain: The Man Who Drew Millions of Far-Out Cats

Louis Wain: The Man Who Drew Millions of Far-Out Cats

"He made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world” - H.G. Wells ...
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James Joyce Manuscripts In Red Crayon for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

James Joyce Manuscripts In Red Crayon for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

His eyesight fading, James Joyce was forced to write in color ...
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Brilliant Art Deco Posters

Brilliant Art Deco Posters

'Many different styles, occasionally at variance with each other, united by a desire to be modern make up Art Deco. ...
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