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Students At A One-Room School in Ojo Sarco, New Mexico – 1943

Students At A One-Room School in Ojo Sarco, New Mexico – 1943

The two men squatting in a ditch, the little fire, the side - meat stewing ...
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‘Learning Science’ – a 1977 Science Textbook for Kids, Stoners and the Wasted

‘Learning Science’ – a 1977 Science Textbook for Kids, Stoners and the Wasted

The text book Learning Science, from the classrooms of 1977 - has a benign enough looking cover, but what lurks inside are some seriously seventies illustrations... ...
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The Girl Suspended For Wearing Pants – New York City, 1942

The Girl Suspended For Wearing Pants – New York City, 1942

In March 1942 Beverley Bernstein, 16, was sent home for her Brooklyn NYC school for wearing trousers. A protest ensued... ...
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Great Photos of the Liverpool School Strike of 1985

Great Photos of the Liverpool School Strike of 1985

"There were speeches back at the pier head but I can't remember a single one of them. I was just filled with the feeling that being on strike was far better than being in school" ...
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David Bowie: Photographs of The Starman As A Child

David Bowie: Photographs of The Starman As A Child

"And then I fell in love with the Little Richard band. I never heard anything that lived in such bright colours in the air. It really just painted the whole room for me" - David Bowie ...
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19th Century Student Drag Queens

19th Century Student Drag Queens

'As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking' - Virginia Woolf (Orlando) ...
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Billy Apple’s Appropriation And David Hockney’s Lady Clairol Hair

Billy Apple’s Appropriation And David Hockney’s Lady Clairol Hair

"I didn't want to spend 10 years learning how to mould a peeled banana. There were people around who were fantastic at doing it ... It has always been like that: the idea is paramount" - Billy Apple ...
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Education Prophesies: How We Envisioned the Classroom of the Future

Education Prophesies: How We Envisioned the Classroom of the Future

If you had asked anyone in the 1950s what the classrooms of 2018 would look like, they’d have described a space-age classroom with all sorts of high-tech gadgetry.  The reality is, our classrooms haven’t changed much.  In some cases the No.2 pencil has been exchanged for an iPad, and the chalkboard for a dry-erase or SMART board – but it’s still the same old story. ...
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Flannery O’Connor’s Sardonic Cartoons Lampoon School and Convention (1942-1945)

Flannery O’Connor’s Sardonic Cartoons Lampoon School and Convention (1942-1945)

“For the writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in the eye, and the eye is an organ that eventually involves the whole personality, and as much of the world as can be got into it” - Flannery O'Connor ...
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When Throbbing Gristle Played One of England’s Top Boarding Schools (1980)

When Throbbing Gristle Played One of England’s Top Boarding Schools (1980)

"I’d been to my first gig, The Clash in Lewisham, a month before which was pretty mind-altering and then to follow that with this experience was something else” ...
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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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When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

The publication of issue 33 of the Royal College of Art’s magazine ARK in the autumn of ...
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