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Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Her voice, slightly off-key, was that of the Parisian street hawkers—the husky, trailing voice of the Paris people. She was of the animal race that owes nothing to intellectualism. She incarnated herself. She flattered a French patriotism that was not shameful. It is normal now that she should crumble, like the other caryatids of that great and marvellous epoch that was ours. ...
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‘Reconstructions’ – Extraordinary Photographs and Poems of ‘the Troubles’

‘Reconstructions’ – Extraordinary Photographs and Poems of ‘the Troubles’

World-renowned Northern Irish photographer, Bobbie Hanvey, captured some of The Troubles' most defining and devastating moments. In 'Reconstructions - The Troubles in Photographs and Words', these photographs take on even greater resonance when set in context by Bobbie's eldest son, singer-songwriter and poet, Steafán Hanvey. ...
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The Story of How Covent Garden was Nearly Razed to the Ground

The Story of How Covent Garden was Nearly Razed to the Ground

The Covent Garden redevelopment scheme covered 96 acres in an area bounded by the Strand, Aldwych, High Holborn, Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road and it proposed the large-scale demolition of the great majority of the 18th and 19th century buildings around the historic old market. ...
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Fabulous Photos of the Rolling Stones and the Audience at Hyde Park, July 5 1969

Fabulous Photos of the Rolling Stones and the Audience at Hyde Park, July 5 1969

Cool it for a minute because I would really like to say something about Brian. I don’t know how to do this thing, but I’m going to try...I’m just going to say something that was written by Shelley... ...
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Amazing Photos of The Beatles Christmas Concerts (24 December 1963 to 11 January 1964)

Amazing Photos of The Beatles Christmas Concerts (24 December 1963 to 11 January 1964)

The Beatles were never much for rehearsing. That never really mattered as far as songs were concerned, but the fact that they were so bad at doing the sketches was an added extra for the Christmas shows - it was organised chaos but it was very funny chaos.  ...
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Cardies for Sharpies: The Connie Makes A Comeback

Cardies for Sharpies: The Connie Makes A Comeback

The ‘Connie’ cardigan was an essential element of dress for Sharpies, the tough and stylish Australian music/fashion youth subculture active in Melbourne’s blue collar suburbs ...
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Tiny People in Fabulous Vintage Christmas Cards

Tiny People in Fabulous Vintage Christmas Cards

Hey, honey I shrunk the family to fit onto this neat Christmas card.... ...
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A  Glorious Collection of Jane Fonda Photographs

A Glorious Collection of Jane Fonda Photographs

"You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth." ...
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Architecture and Fantasy in Brutalist France

Architecture and Fantasy in Brutalist France

“Basically, what has captivated me for 20 years is the vast domain of anonymous architecture, which is the daily environment of most of the inhabitants of this planet, and which we do not look at it so much. It appears to us without any real quality” - Eric Tabuchi ...
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Victor Burgin’s UK 76: Snapshots of British Society in the 1970s

Victor Burgin’s UK 76: Snapshots of British Society in the 1970s

The work of artist Victor Burgin is undergoing re-appraisal in the light of two exhibitions. ...
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We Loved & Lost: Cherished Photographs Are Celebrations of Love

We Loved & Lost: Cherished Photographs Are Celebrations of Love

"In all the mix, your mind, in bereavement, goes over and over all the difficult times. For a long time that happened, but not so much or hardly at all now. Now I find that the things that I do remember are usually because there was a photo to capture that moment" - Anne Bray ...
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No End to Enderby: Sutcliffe and Eatough’s Anthony Burgess film

No End to Enderby: Sutcliffe and Eatough’s Anthony Burgess film

'This is, in many ways, a dirty book. It is full of bowel-blasts and flatulent borborygms, emetic meals (‘thin but over-savoury stews’, Enderby calls them) and halitosis' ...
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