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New York City in all its Neon-Lit Glory, 1969 – 1971

New York City in all its Neon-Lit Glory, 1969 – 1971

These brilliant photos of NYC were taken by Hans Joachim Jacobi using a Exakta Varex IIa, an East-German camera, on the way to and from Halifax in Nova Scotia to visit relatives. ...
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‘Elswick Kids’ –  Extraordinary Photos by the Late Tish Murtha

‘Elswick Kids’ – Extraordinary Photos by the Late Tish Murtha

Her images capture the joy and freedom of childhood at a time when it was normal to play out in the street, in a way that has been largely lost today. ...
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Education Prophesies: How We Envisioned the Classroom of the Future

Education Prophesies: How We Envisioned the Classroom of the Future

If you had asked anyone in the 1950s what the classrooms of 2018 would look like, they’d have described a space-age classroom with all sorts of high-tech gadgetry.  The reality is, our classrooms haven’t changed much.  In some cases the No.2 pencil has been exchanged for an iPad, and the chalkboard for a dry-erase or SMART board – but it’s still the same old story. ...
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David Lynch Creates An Existential Crisis With Rabbits, His Peculiar Digital Sitcom

David Lynch Creates An Existential Crisis With Rabbits, His Peculiar Digital Sitcom

"In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain... three rabbits live with a fearful mystery" ...
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Incredible Photos of Brutalist Architecture in the Former Yugoslavia From 1948-1980

Incredible Photos of Brutalist Architecture in the Former Yugoslavia From 1948-1980

  Once a target of critical abuse—its name the reclamation of an insult—Brutalism is back, ...
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A Brilliant Rejection Letter From Gregory Peck

A Brilliant Rejection Letter From Gregory Peck

"Thank you for sending your script to me. There is a lot of very good writing in it, but playing a senior citizen in a nursing home is not for me. Don't want to do it. Too vain." ...
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LEGO Marketing Materials From the 1960s-1980s Encouraged Boys and Girls to Build Together

LEGO Marketing Materials From the 1960s-1980s Encouraged Boys and Girls to Build Together

Much has been made over the years of a 1981 LEGO ad, and others like it, featuring a beaming young red-headed girl holding up her LEGO creation over the caption “What it is is beautiful.” ...
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The Exploitative New English Library Covers from the 1960s and 70s

The Exploitative New English Library Covers from the 1960s and 70s

The New English Library (NEL) initially concentrated on fantasy, science fiction and suspense novels it soon realised that to differentiate from other publishers it needed to attract and engage with a growing teenage readership. NEL closely followed popular trends and fashions and got hack writers to write exploitative novels about skinheads, Hells Angels and groupies. ...
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Kevin Cummins’ Iconic Photos of Joy Division and New Order

Kevin Cummins’ Iconic Photos of Joy Division and New Order

Some shots you don’t think ‘Right, I’ve just done a defining image.’ It becomes that, because it’s the picture that’s associated with the artist at the moment.” ...
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Hugh Holland’s Sun-Drenched Photos of California Skaters, 1975-78

Hugh Holland’s Sun-Drenched Photos of California Skaters, 1975-78

The subculture of skateboarding that professionalized in the 80s and 90s to become a multimillion-dollar ...
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Flannery O’Connor’s Sardonic Cartoons Lampoon School and Convention (1942-1945)

Flannery O’Connor’s Sardonic Cartoons Lampoon School and Convention (1942-1945)

“For the writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in the eye, and the eye is an organ that eventually involves the whole personality, and as much of the world as can be got into it” - Flannery O'Connor ...
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The Peter Small Connection: Boy George at Street Theatre, The Regal and The Foundry

The Peter Small Connection: Boy George at Street Theatre, The Regal and The Foundry

"One day I was being lippy and said to Peter Small, the guy that ran it, ’Your windows are disgusting. I could do a much better job’" - Boy George ...
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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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