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London Drivers In The 1980s – Photos by Chris Dorley-Brown

London Drivers In The 1980s – Photos by Chris Dorley-Brown

The cars, colours, haircuts and expressions of frustration capture the mood and tone of a unique era in Thatcher's Britain. ...
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 The Other Suffragettes: the Women Who Kept Fighting for the Right to Vote After the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Passed

 The Other Suffragettes: the Women Who Kept Fighting for the Right to Vote After the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Passed

“The contributions of Asian American, Latina, and Native American suffragists are just beginning to be examined by scholars,” writes the Library of Congress, “but there is still much work to be done regarding all women of color.” ...
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An Isolation Reading List From Ernest Hemingway

An Isolation Reading List From Ernest Hemingway

The only advice that's worth a damn when it comes to writing is to sit down and write. There are no quick fixes, no cheat sheets, no words that will bring around some grand epiphany. Good writing is earned from experience. It comes gradually through practice. ...
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When Udo Kier starred in Andy Warhol’s ‘Blood for Dracula’

When Udo Kier starred in Andy Warhol’s ‘Blood for Dracula’

Udo Kier lost ten-kilos to play Dracula. He ate little more than salad leaf and water - "It’s not only Robert De Niro who prepares himself in this way” ...
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Photographs of Bauhaus in the 1920s

Photographs of Bauhaus in the 1920s

Erich Consemüller and Lucia Moholy's phoogrpahs of the Staatliches Bauhaus art school in Dessau ...
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Gritty 1970s Photos of the NYPD Show the Banality, Brute Force, and Humor of “Life on the Beat” in Downtown Manhattan

Gritty 1970s Photos of the NYPD Show the Banality, Brute Force, and Humor of “Life on the Beat” in Downtown Manhattan

“Life on the beat” for the NYPD in Sixth Precinct between 1972 and 1979 ...
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That Time Ken Russell Blew Everyone’s Mind with ‘Altered States’: Pages from a Scrapbook and More

That Time Ken Russell Blew Everyone’s Mind with ‘Altered States’: Pages from a Scrapbook and More

There are some writers who think their written words are sacrosanct because in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. The Word trumps everything. Four Kings and an Ace? Can’t beat the Word. ...
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A Brief History of Hand-washing: How a Basic Hygienic Practice Took Decades to Catch On

A Brief History of Hand-washing: How a Basic Hygienic Practice Took Decades to Catch On

The history of handwashing involves far more than a change in personal habits over time, but a shift in the understanding of the state’s role in public health. ...
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Buy Prints Seeing America In Isolation by George Ault (1940s)

Seeing America In Isolation by George Ault (1940s)

American artist George Ault showed us the America he saw in shades of darkness ...
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Buy Prints Feast Your Eyes! Wonderful and Colorful Lobby Cards of Movies from the 1920s

Feast Your Eyes! Wonderful and Colorful Lobby Cards of Movies from the 1920s

"I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive". Lillian Gish ...
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Houdini Beats The Devils: A Magician Among The Spiritualists, Fakirs and Psychics

Houdini Beats The Devils: A Magician Among The Spiritualists, Fakirs and Psychics

Harry Houdini (1874-1926), the great showman and escapologist, sought to debunk the 1920s fashion for spiritualism in his book A Magician Among The Spirits (1924) ...
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The Intimate Interiors of Jean-Édouard Vuillard – Paysages et Intérieurs (1899)

The Intimate Interiors of Jean-Édouard Vuillard – Paysages et Intérieurs (1899)

“I’ve invented a language that must necessarily spring from a new conception of poetry. I ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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