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The Occult Art of Austin Osman Spare: Child Prodigy, Anti-Nazi, and “Possibly the Greatest English Magician of the Twentieth Century”

The Occult Art of Austin Osman Spare: Child Prodigy, Anti-Nazi, and “Possibly the Greatest English Magician of the Twentieth Century”

The Observer remarked: “Mr. Spare’s art is abnormal, unhealthy, wildly fantastic and unintelligible - high praise indeed ...
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The Cassette Tape Story: Lou Ottens, Keith Richards’ Art And Sony Walkman Mix Tapes

The Cassette Tape Story: Lou Ottens, Keith Richards’ Art And Sony Walkman Mix Tapes

Remembering engineer Lou Ottens who led the team at Philips that invested the brilliant cassette tape ...
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The Enduring Beauty of Victorian Scraps

The Enduring Beauty of Victorian Scraps

Original Victorian scraps cost pennies to buy but can now make hundreds at auction. ...
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Photographs of Cheap Motels in 1970s America

Photographs of Cheap Motels in 1970s America

Mike Mandel's photographs of "economy" motels in 1970s America ...
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Life Amidst the Ruins: Beirut During and After the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War

Life Amidst the Ruins: Beirut During and After the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War

Just as its warring factions had a host of competing, even contradictory, agendas, those who remember the Lebanese conflict today are also subject to their ideological blind spots. ...
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Gorgeous Art Deco Streamline Vans Made at Holland Coachcraft of Govan, Glasgow

Gorgeous Art Deco Streamline Vans Made at Holland Coachcraft of Govan, Glasgow

In the 1930s a factory in Scotland produced the most beautiful laundry vans ...
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Our Interview With John Boorman and his Quest for the Holy Grail of ‘Excalibur’

Our Interview With John Boorman and his Quest for the Holy Grail of ‘Excalibur’

I spoke to him over the phone. Line clear, his voice strong, with a joy those a quarter of his age would envy. ...
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Highlights From a Great Collection of Vintage Record Store Bags

Highlights From a Great Collection of Vintage Record Store Bags

John Medd has a fabulous collection of British record store bags. ...
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Fast Cars, Wide Roads, Blue Skies: Vintage Postcards From Across America

Fast Cars, Wide Roads, Blue Skies: Vintage Postcards From Across America

The broad roads full of tail-finned splendour are matched by the promise of wide open ...
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Sydney Skin : Tattoos And The Australian Venus – 1930s

Sydney Skin : Tattoos And The Australian Venus – 1930s

  The first edition of Pix magazine was published on 29 January 1938. Initially a ...
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Waugh, Waugh, Not Jaw, Jaw: An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh’s Best Books

Waugh, Waugh, Not Jaw, Jaw: An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh’s Best Books

Writer Duncan McLaren introduces us to a shared love of Evelyn Waugh ...
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When The Warning Sounds : Nuclear War Survival Pamphlets – 1959-1961

When The Warning Sounds : Nuclear War Survival Pamphlets – 1959-1961

This might well be the last thing you read before The Bomb drops. Do not be afraid. Act now. ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    The 125 Greatest Songs With A Woman’s Name In The Title

    The 125 Greatest Songs With A Woman’s Name In The Title

    Naming a song after a woman has, over the years, become the biggest music cliché ever; however, there’s been a ton of great ones, and is thereby prime fodder for music lists. So, here's the rules: (1) The song has to have a female's name in the title, but not ...
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