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Gorgeous Vintage New Year’s Greeting Cards – Circa 1900

Gorgeous Vintage New Year’s Greeting Cards – Circa 1900

These greeting cards from the late 19th and early 20th-century celebrate the New Year with lucky pigs, foxes fleeing for their lives and at least one drunk frog ...
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Down These Mean Streets: John Creasey Walked

Down These Mean Streets: John Creasey Walked

If author John Creasey had been born in France (like say Simenon) or America (like Hammett, McBain or Ellroy), then he would be hailed as one the greatest crime writers of all time. ...
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Dirty Postcards: Vintage erotic photographs from over a century ago (NSFW)

Dirty Postcards: Vintage erotic photographs from over a century ago (NSFW)

Dirty postcards sounds disapproving, censorious as if there is something wrong, something shameful about the naked body (like Adam and Eve covering their nakedness from God) and something deeply unsavoury about sexual intercourse. ...
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Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

How Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter brought down the Tory Government! ...
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Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter found signs of something beautiful that connects us all in pictures of a wet New York ...
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Gorgeous Japanese Firework Illustrations From The Late 1800s

Gorgeous Japanese Firework Illustrations From The Late 1800s

These illustrations of 花火, Hanabi (fireworks or “fire flowers”),  advertised Japan's Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks companies in the late 19th century. ...
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Edwin Morgan and William Burroughs Are ‘Somewhere in England’

Edwin Morgan and William Burroughs Are ‘Somewhere in England’

"Push the boat out, compañeros / Push the boat out, whatever the seas…. push it ...
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Thrill List: Quentin Crisp Picks His 10 favourite Gangster Movies

Thrill List: Quentin Crisp Picks His 10 favourite Gangster Movies

"If we go to the movies often enough, and in a sufficiently reverent spirit, they will become more absorbing than the outer world, and the problems of reality will cease to burden us." ...
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Found Photos of the Soviet Summer Camps that Trained Generations of Young Communists

Found Photos of the Soviet Summer Camps that Trained Generations of Young Communists

Every society creates institutions to train children in social mores, civil rituals, and political and religious beliefs—through education, advertising, communal practices, and youth organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The Soviet Union was no different. ...
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Boxing Day In Pictures: Wonderful Photos Of December 26 (1900-2000)

Boxing Day In Pictures: Wonderful Photos Of December 26 (1900-2000)

December 26 is St Stephen's Day, when the Church distributed charity boxes to the needy but can also be traced back to when the wealthy gave their servants a box of Christmas treats; hence Boxing Day. ...
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Peter Cushing: His Early Life to Hammer & Star Wars

Peter Cushing: His Early Life to Hammer & Star Wars

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do. ...
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A Chocolate Box Selection of Celebrity Santa Clauses

A Chocolate Box Selection of Celebrity Santa Clauses

In this gallery from the archives we look at famous faces who over the years ...
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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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