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A Walk Around Brixton in The 1980s

A Walk Around Brixton in The 1980s

We're on a walking tour of 1980s Brixton in South London in the company of Peter Marshall ...
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John Steinbeck’s Wonderful Letter On Racism – 1937

John Steinbeck’s Wonderful Letter On Racism – 1937

"If I had enough money, I would take busloads of people out to the fields ...
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Bombs, Jazz And Junkers – The Birth Of Record Collecting

Bombs, Jazz And Junkers – The Birth Of Record Collecting

If you've compiled a discography you owe something to Brian Rust, the 'sage of Edgware' ...
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Plane Spotters At Gatwick Airport, 1983

Plane Spotters At Gatwick Airport, 1983

Approved by the Air Ministry for commercial flights in 1933, the small aerodrome built in the 1920s became the throbbing Gatwick Airport, London's second airport after Heathrow. ...
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Retro Thai Film Posters Tell You Everything You Want To Know About A Movie

Retro Thai Film Posters Tell You Everything You Want To Know About A Movie

Thai movie posters may not be the best works of art in the world but they do the one thing a good film poster ought to do: they tell you everything you want to know about a movie without having to think too hard. ...
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Russell Lee’s New Deal Visions of Depression-Era Rural America

Russell Lee’s New Deal Visions of Depression-Era Rural America

Russell Lee documented more of America than anyone else ...
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Photographs of Pre-Gentrified Stoke Newington in 1975-1979

Photographs of Pre-Gentrified Stoke Newington in 1975-1979

Alan Denney's photos of Hackney in the mid to late 1970s before gentrification ...
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Vintage Snapshots of Dinosaurs

Vintage Snapshots of Dinosaurs

Robert E Jackson shares snapshots from One Million Years BC (or thereabouts) ...
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The Battle of Cable Street: When 20,000 Antifascist Workers Fought Back Against the Police and Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1936

The Battle of Cable Street: When 20,000 Antifascist Workers Fought Back Against the Police and Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1936

On Sunday 4 October 1936 a revolutionary spirit powered protesters in their historic clash with fascists in London's East End ...
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1980s Snapshots of New York City’s 42nd Street

1980s Snapshots of New York City’s 42nd Street

Little “nifties” from the Fifties, Innocent and sweet; Sexy ladies from the Eighties, Who are indiscreet. – 42nd Street by Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren ...
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Buy Prints When Gas was 15c a gallon – US Filling Stations 1937-1942

When Gas was 15c a gallon – US Filling Stations 1937-1942

The first proper drive-in service station opened in Pennsylvania in 1913 - “Unlike earlier simple curbside gasoline filling stations, an architect purposefully designed the pagoda-style brick facility [that] offered free air, water, crankcase service and tire and tube installation." ...
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Compliments of Chicago – Gang Business Cards from the 1970s and 1980s

Compliments of Chicago – Gang Business Cards from the 1970s and 1980s

In the 1970s and 1980s, gangs in Chicago advertised their presence and membership on business cards. This was criminality with a dash of style and wit. ...
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