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MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

In the 1930s the British high-street store W.H.Smith & Son operated a vast commercial empire and they commissioned artist MacDonald Gill to produce a map of the company's world. ...
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‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away from the microphone with tears in his eyes: “never mind him making you cry, he could make himself cry!” ...
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Great Britain by Bus in Glorious Kodachrome (1969-1971)

Great Britain by Bus in Glorious Kodachrome (1969-1971)

An Australian tourist's snapshots of Great Britain in the lat 1960s and early 1970s ...
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‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses Pub by Ray Bellisario in 1968

Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses Pub by Ray Bellisario in 1968

"I’d just bought a new car. It was a Ford Consul which I’d parked right behind us. So I grabbed her arm and I said, ‘Come with me,’ and she did! And she said, 'Oh, this is fun, I’ve been kidnapped!'" ...
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Edwin Smith: Photographing Beauty In Everyday Landscapes

Edwin Smith: Photographing Beauty In Everyday Landscapes

"I am an architect by training, a painter by inclination, and a photographer by necessity" - Edwin Smith ...
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Buy Prints Curtis Moffat: Bright Young Things;  Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935

Curtis Moffat: Bright Young Things; Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935

"A gentle, quiet, easy-going man with velvet eyes and enormous charm, Curtis Moffat was the most Europeanised of Americans. He seemed to be only 'at home' in the quietness of his book-filled rooms. But appearances are deceptive; in fact he was the centre of enormous creative activity. " Cecil Beaton ...
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Koen Wessing: The Indelible Image of Post-War Conflict

Koen Wessing: The Indelible Image of Post-War Conflict

'You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on' - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable ...
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The Beatles At Abbey Road On September 12 1963 – Norman Parkinson’s Early Fab Four Photographs

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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Captivating Pictures from a Stroll Around Soho on March 15 1966

Captivating Pictures from a Stroll Around Soho on March 15 1966

Someone, for some reason, walked around Soho on this day and took some photographs, and here they are... ...
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24 Color Photos of Swinging London – 1967-1969

24 Color Photos of Swinging London – 1967-1969

I lived in Oxford and on the Isle of Wight in the Late Sixties, writes Arby Reed. This collection contains some of the sights I took time to photograph. I wish I had taken more and more that reflected the culture of the sixties. ...
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Extraordinary Pictures of ‘Hippiedilly’ on Hyde Park Corner in 1969

Extraordinary Pictures of ‘Hippiedilly’ on Hyde Park Corner in 1969

Drug taking, couples making love while others look on, a heavy mob armed with iron bars, filth and stench, foul language, that is the scene inside the hippies’ fortress in London’s Piccadilly. These are not rumours but facts, sordid facts which will shock ordinary decent living people. Drug taking, squalor and sex. ...
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