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“This is Your Hour” – The Party That Ended All Parties – British VE Day Celebrations

“This is Your Hour” – The Party That Ended All Parties – British VE Day Celebrations

My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It’s a victory of the great British nation as a whole. We were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny. After a while we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. - Churchill, 8 may 1945 ...
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The Great American Road Trip – In Mid-Century Kodachrome

The Great American Road Trip – In Mid-Century Kodachrome

  Time to go on a great American road trip. It's the trip Europeans love ...
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The First Automated Grocery Store Opens in 1937

The First Automated Grocery Store Opens in 1937

Keedoozle…. It sounds like the name of an Internet startup. The idea was intended to “disrupt” an entire industry, changing the way Americans do their shopping. ...
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“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

A ‘centre of gaiety’ as one 1930s guide book put it, where thousands and thousands of people and almost as many cars ‘struggle in vain for freedom’. ...
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Robert Mitchum was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Robert Mitchum was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Robert Mitchum left home when he was fourteen. He didn't run away like he later claimed in TV interviews when he was more famous and the conversation needed a little spin to keep it going. His mother packed his suitcase and made him a sandwich for the journey. ...
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Buy Prints Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Atget (1857-1927) wandered the streets of Paris dressed in a large black cloak and floppy hat, his camera slung on its tripod over his shoulder. He drifted until something triggered a response which he stopped to photograph. ...
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The Lada Riva and Niva: Iconic Soviet Cars that Outlasted the Empire

The Lada Riva and Niva: Iconic Soviet Cars that Outlasted the Empire

The car did not pass any modern safely tests, had a reputation for maximum affordability and minimal reliability, and was beloved by thousands of Russians ...
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Nightclubbing : Brian Sweeney’s Epic Photographs of Glasgow’s Legendary Sub Club

Nightclubbing : Brian Sweeney’s Epic Photographs of Glasgow’s Legendary Sub Club

The Sub Club was established in 1987. It's a medium-sized club situated at 22 Jamaica Street, Glasgow. The venue holds the record for being "the longest running underground dance club in the world" ...
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The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor, Denis Nilsen and the History of Centre Point, Denmark Street and St Giles

The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor, Denis Nilsen and the History of Centre Point, Denmark Street and St Giles

In July 1949 fifty-four residents wrote a letter to the Times about living in St Giles Rookery under the headline "A Sanitary Remonstrance": "We live in muck and filth. We aint got no priviz, no dust bins, no drains, no water-splies, and no drain or suer in the hole place." ...
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The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

When the Iron Curtain fell, in 1991 The Communist Party of Great Britain called it ...
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The Art of Seeing:  People of Florida, 1971 – 1995

The Art of Seeing: People of Florida, 1971 – 1995

For three decades Michael Carlebach captured the people and situations we only glimpse ...
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Marilyn Monroe On The Beach With Her Mother In 1929

Marilyn Monroe On The Beach With Her Mother In 1929

“I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.” ...
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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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