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‘A Minor Wonder of the World’ – Speakers’ Corner in London – 1981

‘A Minor Wonder of the World’ – Speakers’ Corner in London – 1981

George Orwell once described Speakers' Corner as "one of the minor wonders of the world", and listened to "Indian nationalists, temperance reformers, Communists, Trotskyists, the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), the Catholic Evidence Society, freethinkers, vegetarians, Mormons, the Salvation Army, the Church Army, and a large variety of plain lunatics". ...
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Hanging Out With A Swiss Youth Tribe in The 1950s

Hanging Out With A Swiss Youth Tribe in The 1950s

Karlheinz Weinberger's photographs of the Halbstarken youth tribe ...
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A German Soldier’s Photographs of Jews Forced Into A Ghetto in Poland

A German Soldier’s Photographs of Jews Forced Into A Ghetto in Poland

In 1940 a German soldier took these photographs of Jews being sent to the ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland ...
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The Tattooed Venus and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Sydney 1937

The Tattooed Venus and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Sydney 1937

Betty Broadbent was said to have had 465 tattoos, including the largest known at that time, a Madonna and Child on her back. She was also decorated with images of pilot Charles Lindbergh, patriotic flags and emblems including the American eagle. ...
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Fashion: An Anthology – The Mastery of Cecil Beaton and Vern Lambert in 1971

Fashion: An Anthology – The Mastery of Cecil Beaton and Vern Lambert in 1971

My recent Rocketman post gave me cause to dig out my copy of the catalogue ...
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Pictures of Waterloo Station in 1974

Pictures of Waterloo Station in 1974

Waterloo Station is named after the bridge which is named after the battle named after the town in Belgium where Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. ...
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‘The Cathedral of Electrons’ – The Story of Battersea Power Station

‘The Cathedral of Electrons’ – The Story of Battersea Power Station

Most of the extraordinary detail inside the power station, that once made the London writer Felix Barker to compare the power station to the great church of Sainte-Cécile at Albi in the south of France, has now gone – obliterated. ...
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I Am Not A Wedding Photographer : Fabulous Portraits of the British Enjoying A Bit of A Do

I Am Not A Wedding Photographer : Fabulous Portraits of the British Enjoying A Bit of A Do

British photographer Ian Weldon shows us joy in the dull bits at British weddings ...
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A Gay Wedding In Philadelphia 1957

A Gay Wedding In Philadelphia 1957

Found photos of a gay wedding in the USA decades before it was legal ...
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Stickers : More Stuck-Up Crap

Stickers : More Stuck-Up Crap

A look at the use of audacious and eye-catching stickers in art, design, fashion, music and social activism ...
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Photographs of ‘El Segundo Barrio’ of El Paso in 1972 by Danny Lyon

Photographs of ‘El Segundo Barrio’ of El Paso in 1972 by Danny Lyon

Documerica was a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document ...
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Beatus of Facundus : A Vivid Illustrated Guide to the Apocalypse (1047)

Beatus of Facundus : A Vivid Illustrated Guide to the Apocalypse (1047)

A monk's vivid illustrations of the The Revelation of John ...
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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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