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The Gruesome Murders at 10 Rillington Place and the Beginning of the End of the Death Penalty

The Gruesome Murders at 10 Rillington Place and the Beginning of the End of the Death Penalty

At just before 9am at Pentonville Prison on 15th July 1953 and with his arms already pinioned behind his back, John Reginald Halliday Christie complained that he had an itchy nose. The hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, told him not to worry too much,  ‘it won’t bother you for long,’ he said. ...
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Robert Crumb Draws God’s Meeting With Philip K. Dick (1974)

Robert Crumb Draws God’s Meeting With Philip K. Dick (1974)

'When I bend down to tie my shoes in the morning I think, ‘Christ almighty, what now?’ - Charles Bukowski ...
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An Old Warehouse at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard is Home To a Massive Sea Monster

An Old Warehouse at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard is Home To a Massive Sea Monster

'And then, slowly uncoiling their tentacles, they all began moving towards him - creeping at first deliberately, and making a soft purring sound to each other' - H.G. Wells, The Sea Raiders ...
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Kodachrome Snapshots of the British on The Beach

Kodachrome Snapshots of the British on The Beach

'Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside! I do like to be beside the sea! I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom! Where the brass bands play, Tiddely-om-pom-pom!' - John A. Glover-Kind (1907) ...
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A Look Through Newsweek October 1958

A Look Through Newsweek October 1958

Possibly the greatest invention of mankind – the remote control!  “Space Command Remote Control TV Tuning!” - and MORE! ...
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Mechanations: Historical Machines As Three-Dimensional Exploded Diagrams

Mechanations: Historical Machines As Three-Dimensional Exploded Diagrams

'The machines I choose for my sculptures tend to be examples of great design and engineering... They are usually things with which most of us have some level of intimate experience... For example, the sewing machine your grandmother used, or the typewriter you learned to type on' - John Peralta ...
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One October Day In Hagerstown Maryland 1937

One October Day In Hagerstown Maryland 1937

A look around a small US city on a Saturday in the 1930s ...
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The 1939 New York World’s Fair Invents the Future: Welcome to ‘The World of Tomorrow’

The 1939 New York World’s Fair Invents the Future: Welcome to ‘The World of Tomorrow’

As the US emerged from the Great Depression, a utopian spirit took hold, a sense that technology, design, and global cooperation would bring about 'the World of Tomorrow' ...
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From Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1961

From Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1961

“We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation” - Voltaire ...
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‘Pile it High, Sell it Low’: The Saga of the Supermarket

‘Pile it High, Sell it Low’: The Saga of the Supermarket

In the US, there is a gigantic supermarket seemingly everywhere you look.  A Wal-Mart Super-Center ...
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Sinister Vintage Kodachrome Snapshots Of The British at Play

Sinister Vintage Kodachrome Snapshots Of The British at Play

Weird, sinister and fun snapshots of mid-Century Britons doing stuff! ...
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Watch M.C. Escher Make His Impossible Mathematical Art In This 1971 Film

Watch M.C. Escher Make His Impossible Mathematical Art In This 1971 Film

'Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check' - MC Escher ...
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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 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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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