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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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Photographs of Brooklyn in the 1970s

Photographs of Brooklyn in the 1970s

William Gedney: “What matters most of all, is to penetrate into the pulsing life of the people themselves, to become imbued with their way of living, and to see their faces when they sing at their weddings, harvests and funerals֦.” ...
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Here’s To Good Friends: Socializing Like a Boss in Vintage Alcohol Ads

Here’s To Good Friends: Socializing Like a Boss in Vintage Alcohol Ads

There were many advertising tactics from booze producers providing an association between alcohol and being popular, having friends and fun.  It’s common sense, after all. ...
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Fascinating Photos of Soho in the 1950s

Fascinating Photos of Soho in the 1950s

"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent." Quentin Crisp ...
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My Great-Uncle’s Extraordinary World War 1 Scrapbook

My Great-Uncle’s Extraordinary World War 1 Scrapbook

A reader shares his ancestor's poetry and views on the Great War ...
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Miami in the 1970s and 80s: A Look at the Magic City’s Turbulent Years

Miami in the 1970s and 80s: A Look at the Magic City’s Turbulent Years

"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die" - Lenny Bruce ...
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Choose Your Retro Haircut! Hair Style Selections from the 1950s-1980s

Choose Your Retro Haircut! Hair Style Selections from the 1950s-1980s

Date-bait, The Perfecto, Wethead, The Dry Look, The Proto-Mullet, the Forward-Combed Boogiie and many more vintage hair dos and hair don'ts ...
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When Throbbing Gristle Played One of England’s Top Boarding Schools (1980)

When Throbbing Gristle Played One of England’s Top Boarding Schools (1980)

"I’d been to my first gig, The Clash in Lewisham, a month before which was pretty mind-altering and then to follow that with this experience was something else” ...
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Buckminster Fuller Creates Striking, Two-Layer Posters to Illustrate His Life’s Work in 1981

Buckminster Fuller Creates Striking, Two-Layer Posters to Illustrate His Life’s Work in 1981

If human nature could be altered with revolutionary design, Buckminster Fuller might have been the man to do it. Not only was he an architectural and engineering visionary, but he also seemed primarily motivated by altruism, with a vision for the future that included a high quality of life for everyone rather than a handful of inventors and investors. ...
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Spectacular Photos of London’s Lost East End In Kodachrome

Spectacular Photos of London’s Lost East End In Kodachrome

David Granick's (1912-80) Kodachrome photographs of London in the 1960s and 1970s are sensational. Here are more from Granick's legacy of more than 3000 colour slides of a London now only glimpsed. ...
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Shirtwaist Fashion, The ‘Gibson Girl’ and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster of 1911

Shirtwaist Fashion, The ‘Gibson Girl’ and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster of 1911

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 workers, mostly immigrant women and girls trapped by fire, a collapsed fire escape, and locked doors, in a Greenwich Village garment factory. It marks a pivotal moment in 20th century history, at the nexus of concerns over labor exploitation, workplace safety, conditions of immigrant life, corruption in New York politics, and women’s emergence into the workforce. ...
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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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