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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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Gorgeous, Color Photographs of Paris Between The Great War And La Belle Époque

Gorgeous, Color Photographs of Paris Between The Great War And La Belle Époque

These gorgeous color photographs of Paris in 1914, at the end of the La Belle Époque, were made using Autochrome Lumière technology, a technique developed in 1903 by the Lumière brothers. ...
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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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