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Murder In Mind: Terror Stalks The Avengers Set, 1961

Murder In Mind: Terror Stalks The Avengers Set, 1961

During a break in camera rehearsals for The Avengers, actors Ian Hendry and Patrick MacNee were having a sneaky lunchtime drink in the Angler's Arms, near A.B.C.'s Teddington Studios, when producer Dennis Vance burst in wielding a carving knife... ...
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The Construction of the Forth Railway Bridge, a 19th Century Engineering Marvel

The Construction of the Forth Railway Bridge, a 19th Century Engineering Marvel

These photos date from between 1886 and 1890. ...
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Art Power: 30 Fantastic Posters and Flyers From The Paris Uprising – May 1968

Art Power: 30 Fantastic Posters and Flyers From The Paris Uprising – May 1968

These posters, flyers and hand-outs were made by Marxist group The Atelier Populaire, who occupied the lithography studios at the École des Beaux-Arts during the Paris uprising of May 1968 ...
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Carry on England: The Scathing Caricatures and Bawdy Erotica of Thomas Rowlandson (NSFW-ish)

Carry on England: The Scathing Caricatures and Bawdy Erotica of Thomas Rowlandson (NSFW-ish)

It should have happened. A Carry On movie loosely based on the life of artist, caricaturist and all-round bad-boy Thomas Rowlandson. ...
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The Original Back to the Future DeLorean DMC-12, Lovingly Restored to “Better Than New Condition”

The Original Back to the Future DeLorean DMC-12, Lovingly Restored to “Better Than New Condition”

You may have heard: the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 is coming back, thanks to Stephen Wynne, CEO of the revamped DeLorean Motor Company. ...
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A Second Bill of Rights To Save Racist America From Fascism (1944)

A Second Bill of Rights To Save Racist America From Fascism (1944)

On January 11 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used his State of the Union address to outline his Second Bill of Rights. ...
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‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

Much of the food we tried in London -- and in England generally -- was bland, tasteless, and (in restaurants) overcooked, as we'd been told it would be. Saying no to it was easy. ...
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Paintings of Mystery and Imagination: Bernie Wrightson’s artwork for the tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Paintings of Mystery and Imagination: Bernie Wrightson’s artwork for the tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Bernie Wrightson was one of the greatest graphic artist of the past fifty years. He was revered and respected by the likes of Neil Gaiman, Joss Whedon and Guillermo Del Toro, who took a twenty-four hour vow of silence after Wrightson died in 2017 at the age of 68. ...
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Punk Princess: ‘Devastatingly Sexy’ Portraits of Debbie Harry 1977 to 1988

Punk Princess: ‘Devastatingly Sexy’ Portraits of Debbie Harry 1977 to 1988

Gorgeous photographs of Blondie's lead singer by Brian Arts ...
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Love Is Walking Hand In Hand – With Lucy van Pelt (1965)

Love Is Walking Hand In Hand – With Lucy van Pelt (1965)

Another instalment from Charles M Schulz's delightful book on love ...
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One of the First True Monorail Systems Debuts in 1910, Wins High Praise from Winston Churchill, Then Fails

One of the First True Monorail Systems Debuts in 1910, Wins High Praise from Winston Churchill, Then Fails

In the early 20th Century Irish-born inventor Louis Brennan invented a monorail inspired by a child's toy ...
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Love Is Walking Hand In Hand – With Charlie Brown (1965)

Love Is Walking Hand In Hand – With Charlie Brown (1965)

Peanuts had something to say in Love Is Walking Hand In Hand ...
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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 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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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