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Captivating P & O Shipping Line Adverts

Captivating P & O Shipping Line Adverts

P&O first introduced passenger services in 1844, advertising sea tours to destinations such as Gibraltar, Malta and Athens, sailing from Southampton these were the forerunners of the modern cruise holidays and were the first of their kind. ...
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23 Vintage Snapshots On The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

23 Vintage Snapshots On The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Do you believe in ghosts? What do you see in these haunting images from yesteryear? ...
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Thirteen Fabulous BBC Year Book Covers from 1928 – 1966

Thirteen Fabulous BBC Year Book Covers from 1928 – 1966

The BBC's handbooks came out annually from 1928 to 1987 and were illustrated by the most prestigious artists of the day - often creating stimulating and daring covers. ...
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Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s postcards

Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s postcards

Billy Butlin’s inspiration for his holiday camp empire actually came from a bad holiday on Barry Island in his youth when he had been locked out of his B&B all day by his landlady.  ...
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The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

In 1961, The New Yorker commissioned Arendt to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem ...
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Chalmers Butterfield’s Travels In Kodachrome

Chalmers Butterfield’s Travels In Kodachrome

A gorgeous series of slides documenting an American's travels in the 1950s and 1960s ...
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Banned In The USA: Charges et Décharges Diaboliques by Eugène Lepoittevin

Banned In The USA: Charges et Décharges Diaboliques by Eugène Lepoittevin

Twelve satirical images the USA once considered "obscene and immoral" (NSFW) ...
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Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll

Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll

The nightmarish, curious and rather cute demons were created in the Edo period ...
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Wonderful Kodachrome Photos of London in 1949

Wonderful Kodachrome Photos of London in 1949

Four fabulous colour photographs of London in 1949 ...
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The Model Book of Calligraphy – An Illuminated Masterpiece (1591 – 1596)

The Model Book of Calligraphy – An Illuminated Masterpiece (1591 – 1596)

Wonderful illuminations that mix handwriting, art and colour ...
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The Story of Poor Robert McGee : Scalped in 1864

The Story of Poor Robert McGee : Scalped in 1864

'Young McGee' tells the story of how he came to scalped and live in the 'Indian Wars' ...
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“Traveller’s Joy” – The Key to the Countryside – Beautiful Shell Adverts from the mid-1950s

“Traveller’s Joy” – The Key to the Countryside – Beautiful Shell Adverts from the mid-1950s

From the 1920s and into the 1950s the Shell Oil Company produced some wonderful advertising posters and some said, the most beautiful the country has ever seen. ...
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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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