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23 Vintage Snapshots On The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Do you believe in ghosts? What do you see in these haunting images from yesteryear? ...

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Thirteen Fabulous BBC Year Book Covers from 1928 – 1966

The BBC's handbooks came out annually from 1928 to 1987 and were illustrated by the most prestigious artists of the day - often creating stimulating and daring covers. ...

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Incredible Photographs of Shipwrecks (1872 – 1997)

From the Gibson Archives - stunning photographs of ships wrecked on his British coasts ...

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Dennis Wheatley, the Prince of Thriller Writers, and How He Helped Defeat the Nazis

Wheatley was pretty well a quasi-fascist during most of the 1930s (Hermann Goering was a fan of his books and once invited him to Germany to meet the Nazi leaders) but somehow, and with the recommendation of his wife who was an MI5 driver, he ended up working in the offices of the War Cabinet. ...

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“If I Ever Bore You, It’ll Be With a Knife” – Glorious Pictures of Louise Brooks

“A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.” ...

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A Visual Tour of Brassaï’s Paris – 1930s

“I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my ...

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Three Colours Beautiful: The Astonishing Early Colour Photography of Bernard F. Eilers

Eilers called his technique foto-chroma. He was the "Magician of Colour" ...

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The Women of “The Women” Relax on Sydney’s Tamarama Beach in 1939

"The Women" are a set of New Yorkers who think of nothing but men and money and devote their entire lives to the little victories of lechery and greed... Miss Boothe's piece is a frankly vulgar play about frankly vulgar people." ...

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Wonderful Photos of Early Australian Bike Culture

The archive of the State Library of New South Wales has curated these marvellous pictures of ...

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1966: When Football’s Solid Gold Jules Rimet World Cup Was Stolen In London

On March 20 1966, the World Cup was on show at the National Stamp Exhibition in Central Hall, Westminster and then it was gone... ...

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The Tattooed Venus and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Sydney 1937

Betty Broadbent was said to have had 465 tattoos, including the largest known at that time, a Madonna and Child on her back. She was also decorated with images of pilot Charles Lindbergh, patriotic flags and emblems including the American eagle. ...

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‘The Cathedral of Electrons’ – The Story of Battersea Power Station

Most of the extraordinary detail inside the power station, that once made the London writer Felix Barker to compare the power station to the great church of Sainte-Cécile at Albi in the south of France, has now gone – obliterated. ...

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