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The Beggarstaffs Created Posters Too Avant-Garde For Victorian London

Celebrating the daring poster art of artists William Nicholson and James Pryde ...

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Barbara Windsor: A Life in Photos

British Actress Dame Barbara Windsor was 83 when she succumbed to Alzheimer's at a London care home. Dame Barbara is best remembered as the star of nine of the 31 Carry On films - and it's hard to think of the series of saucy comedies without her. ...

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What Kind of Fool was He? Anthony Newley In ‘The Small World of Sammy Lee’

Anthony Newley was a perfect fit for the lead role in The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963). Newley starred as Sammy Lee, a low-rent compere at a striptease club who's in hock to a Soho bookie. He has 24-hours to cough-up or else. ...

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New York City Nightclub Flyers from the 1980s

For artists and performers it was a golden age with clubs needing to book events seven-days-a-week. ...

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Cecil Beaton’s Campy 1920s Photographs of London’s Bright Young Things

In the years between the wars, the pent-up demand for pleasure and creativity exploded. This was the Jazz Age, the age of Weimar cabaret culture, the Lost Generation in Paris, and of London’s Bright Young Things ...

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Photographs of the Wonderful Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

Yes I have a dark side, doesn’t everyone? I’ve played a lot of evil, ball-breaking women. And, if you’re honest, you’ll just drag up from the depths all the times you’ve hated or felt passionately about something and play it. ...

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The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

At the start of his teens, Schadeberg was forced into the Hitler Youth. He hated it and everything it represented. Sometimes he marched backwards, or wore bright colours instead of the standard issue brown shirt. On other occasions he mimicked Charlie Chaplin as der Führer. ...

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When Boris Karloff went on a Celebrity Ghost Hunt

It was an average, normal day in 1950's London when Boris Karloff went on a ghost hunt... ...

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The Night Tallulah Bankhead Met Gerald du Maurier in London in 1923

There were a few people in the room including Daphne, Gerald’s 15 year old daughter, who after Tallulah had left turned to her father and said, “Daddy, that’s the most beautiful girl I ever saw in my life.” ...

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Polish Artist Wladyslaw T. Benda’s Living Masks

Artist, illustrator and costume designer Wladyslaw Theodore Benda was born in Poznan, Poland on ...

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The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

Their speciality is rhythm; rhythm which is merely a nervous tremor, and rhythm that does not so much stimulate as achieve frenzy! ...

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The Girl In The Cosmo Painting – A 1950s New York City Love Story

Nancy Tompkins transports us to New York City on the 1950s in the company of her mother's debut in Cosmopolitan magazine ...

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