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Glorious Photos and Films from the Golden Age of BBC Radio

"This is 2LO, the London station of the British Broadcasting Company calling. 2LO calling." ...

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A Family’s Found Photos of Joy And Love In Depression Era America

It was the 30s, the height of the Depression and my grandfather was desperate to find work as he and young family traveled West for a better life. ...

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“You’ve Forgotten Your Trousers Sir” – Bunny Austin’s Shorts and the Men’s Dress Reform Party

My bare legs protruded beneath the coat and I slunk through the lounge self-consciously. As I passed through the door an agitated porter followed me. ‘Excuse me, Mr Austin’, he whispered diffidently, ‘but I think you’ve forgotten your trousers Sir.' ...

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“El Tigre del Sur” – Photos and Pictures of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata

"I'd prefer to die standing, than to live always on my knees" ...

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The Bloody Valentine’s Day Massacre and a Nightclub Toilet

A reporter at the scene, called O'Rourke from the Chicago American, memorably remarked after looking down at his shoes: I’ve got more brains on my feet than I have in my head. ...

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They See Us: John Alinder’s Portraits of People of Sweden From 100 Years Ago

As if their gaze can travel the hundred years or so that lie between their time and ours. As if they were saying, “You are alive now, but we were once alive” ...

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The Oxford Street of the South – A Short Fabulous Retail History of Brixton

Ian Nairn, the architectural critic, described Brixton Market as “stalls everywhere, arcades everywhere, diving through buildings and under the railway. Meat, fish, nylons, detergent: an endless convoluted cornucopia”. ...

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Painting Flowers With Autochrome Photographs In The 1920s

The autochrome is an early form of colour photography.The vivid colours the photographs have a ...

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My Father, My Dad, My Friend – Vintage Photos To Celebrate Father’s Day

In appreciation of dad, Robert E. Jackson selects a gallery of snapshots ...

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Gerda Wegener’s Erotic Illustrations For Les Delassements d’Eros 1925 (NSFW)

Gerda Wegener caused a sensation with her gorgeous images of beautiful women - her art is equal to it ...

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Illustrated Lists of Great Writers and Artists

From Picasso's best artists to fining love in New York City, lists make sense of the incomprehensible ...

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Hugh Mangum Portraits: The Itinerant Photographer Who Captured Black and White America

Mangum worked in the American South at the height of Jim Crow segregation laws - he welcomed blacks and whites alike ...

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