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Watching Manchester Railways in the 1980s

Watching Manchester Railways in the 1980s

Until 1989, the British State ran the country's railways. David Rostance watched the trains come and go ...
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Edwin Rosskam’s Poignant Photos of Black Americans on the South Side of Chicago, 1941

Edwin Rosskam’s Poignant Photos of Black Americans on the South Side of Chicago, 1941

"There are things you can only say with words, there are things you can say better with pictures than any other way." ...
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‘A Fantasy Documentary’: Derek Jarman’s Punk Rock Movie ‘Jubilee’

‘A Fantasy Documentary’: Derek Jarman’s Punk Rock Movie ‘Jubilee’

I was first introduced to Derek Jarman through a porn mag. It was one of the few my older brother hid in a Subbuteo box in the front bedroom cupboard. ...
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Photos of the Rough and Tumble Tour de France Throughout the Years

Photos of the Rough and Tumble Tour de France Throughout the Years

The first tours were more like what is now called adventure or endurance racing than the smooth, calculated road races we're used to seeing on TV ...
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Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939

Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939

“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the ...
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The Totally Rad Fad of 1980’s BMX

The Totally Rad Fad of 1980’s BMX

The odd little bikes don’t look ridable by anyone over twelve years old - and they are, in point of fact, designed for children. But... ...
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Brooklyn in Kodachrome – 1970s New York City In Color

Brooklyn in Kodachrome – 1970s New York City In Color

"My pix, mostly developed by me in my Boro Park darkroom in the 70's. Remember ...
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From Silent Film to TV: How the Glamorous Anna May Wong Became Hollywood’s First Chinese-American Movie Star

From Silent Film to TV: How the Glamorous Anna May Wong Became Hollywood’s First Chinese-American Movie Star

Becoming the first person from a marginalized group to integrate an industry is not so much an honor as an endurance test. Anna May Wong, the first Asian-American Hollywood film star, learned this lesson in the 1920s and 30s ...
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The Teenager Who Egged Frank Sinatra And The Bobby Sox Riot – New York City, 1944

The Teenager Who Egged Frank Sinatra And The Bobby Sox Riot – New York City, 1944

In 1944 Alexander Dorogokupetz became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared. ...
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A Walk Around Carlisle in 1975

A Walk Around Carlisle in 1975

Cars, crazy golf, city walls and concrete - a tour of Carlisle, England in the mid 1970s ...
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The First Colour Photographs of Ireland – 1913

The First Colour Photographs of Ireland – 1913

The 73 autochromes of Ireland that French academics Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon took in May and June 1913 are the first colour photographs of the island ...
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In the Moshpits of the Working Class Punk Scene of Newcastle, 1985

In the Moshpits of the Working Class Punk Scene of Newcastle, 1985

One night, somebody said I should check out The Station – an anarcho-punk venue set up in an old police social club in Gateshead ...
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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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