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“Fun-Maker” Pauline Fordham and her Swinging Sixties Boutique in Soho, 1966

“Fun-Maker” Pauline Fordham and her Swinging Sixties Boutique in Soho, 1966

Palisades was opened by Pauline Fordham on Ganton Street, just off Carnaby Street and the self-styled “Fun-Maker”, as the Daily Express called her, opened the boutique with “a rousing party”. ...
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Every Saturday at Great Homer Street Market, Liverpool in the 1980s and 90s

Every Saturday at Great Homer Street Market, Liverpool in the 1980s and 90s

Tom Wood's great photos of shoppers at the 'Greatie' ...
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‘Learning Science’ – a 1977 Science Textbook for Kids, Stoners and the Wasted

‘Learning Science’ – a 1977 Science Textbook for Kids, Stoners and the Wasted

The text book Learning Science, from the classrooms of 1977 - has a benign enough looking cover, but what lurks inside are some seriously seventies illustrations... ...
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MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

In the 1930s the British high-street store W.H.Smith & Son operated a vast commercial empire and they commissioned artist MacDonald Gill to produce a map of the company's world. ...
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Photos From A Trip Around England in 1977

Photos From A Trip Around England in 1977

In October 1977, Mats Örn flew in to London from his native Sweden. He landed at Stanstead Airport to the east of the city in Essex, once a wartime airfield serving the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces but since converted into a commercial airport. ...
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The Girl Suspended For Wearing Pants – New York City, 1942

The Girl Suspended For Wearing Pants – New York City, 1942

In March 1942 Beverley Bernstein, 16, was sent home for her Brooklyn NYC school for wearing trousers. A protest ensued... ...
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‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away from the microphone with tears in his eyes: “never mind him making you cry, he could make himself cry!” ...
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Views of Notre Dame and Paris – 1920

Views of Notre Dame and Paris – 1920

Photographs of Paris made circa 1920 by photographer by Pierre-Yves Petit, aka 'Yvon' ...
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The Greatest Show on Earth! Kodachrome Photos of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

The Greatest Show on Earth! Kodachrome Photos of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

CW Cushman loved travelling and most years would take photographs of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the so-called Greatest Show on Earth. ...
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Strange Views of Switzerland and The Swiss

Strange Views of Switzerland and The Swiss

Didier Ruef's photographs show us a Switzerland away from clocks, skiiing lawyers and gnomes ...
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The ‘Last Hurrah of the Upper Classes’ – Photographs by Dafydd Jones

The ‘Last Hurrah of the Upper Classes’ – Photographs by Dafydd Jones

"It was Thatcher’s Britain, a period of celebration for those that had money," ...
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The Revised Boy Scout Manual : How to Fight A Revolution (1970)

The Revised Boy Scout Manual : How to Fight A Revolution (1970)

William S. Burroughs’ 1970 manifesto for overthrowing a corrupt government, aka The Revised Boy Scouts Manual ...
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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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