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Pictures of Birmingham Gigs in the Early 1980s

Pictures of Birmingham Gigs in the Early 1980s

I started at Birmingham University and quickly began taking concert photgraphs for the university newspaper Redbrick as a way to get free tickets. ...
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Erotic Film Posters from the 60s Celebrate the End of Hollywood Hays Code Censorship

Erotic Film Posters from the 60s Celebrate the End of Hollywood Hays Code Censorship

Fast forward to the early 1960s and the Hays Code, while still technically extant until 1965, had been weakened to the point of unenforceability. ...
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David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

Klein's influential posters still look extraordinary to this day and "define the excitement and enthusiasm of the early years of post-war air travel." ...
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Men on Vintage Knitting Patterns

Men on Vintage Knitting Patterns

Often seen handling weaponry, wooden objects and sticks or gazing into the distance, the male models are often in pairs... ...
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A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

A Look at the Mercury Seven – Astronauts with “The Right Stuff”

The post-war test pilot in the 1950s had an incredibly high death rate.  Literally a quarter of them died.  Wolfe’s novel describes the grisly details of life as a test pilot, where it seemed there was a funeral to attend every week. ...
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Java Nostalgia: Remembrances Before the ‘Coffee Culture’ Boom

Java Nostalgia: Remembrances Before the ‘Coffee Culture’ Boom

It’s early morning 1982 and you’re visiting your neighbors, and they offer you a cup of coffee.  You know exactly what you’re going to get – it’s going to be a watery mug of Maxwell House or Folgers. End of story. ...
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Children in ‘The Troubles’: Northern Ireland 1969-1981

Children in ‘The Troubles’: Northern Ireland 1969-1981

For many, Northern Ireland during 'the Troubles' was a place synonymous with murder, bombs, hit-squads, vicious bastards, shootings, victims of liberal bigots, prison and intimidation. ...
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30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns

30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns

Wherever there’s a clown, you’ll find a child crying.  What possesses adults to think children love clowns? ...
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Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the Peanuts Gang Sell Ford Falcons in the Early 60s

Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the Peanuts Gang Sell Ford Falcons in the Early 60s

A Charlie Brown Christmas was not Charlie Brown and company’s first appearance on television. Before they piously extolled the simple virtues of Christmas, the gang sold cars for Ford. ...
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TV on the Brink: The Disastrous Mid-Season of 1979

TV on the Brink: The Disastrous Mid-Season of 1979

From January through May of 1979, all three major networks (NBC, CBS, ABC) premiered an unprecedented 36 new series.  The reason?  NBC, a network that was in an absolute free-fall, had hired Fred Silverman. ...
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Historic Photos of Richard Nixon During his Last Two Days in Office

Historic Photos of Richard Nixon During his Last Two Days in Office

“Our Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.” - Gerald Ford ...
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Pictures of a Run-down Bristol in the 1970s

Pictures of a Run-down Bristol in the 1970s

In the post-war years, far more destruction was done, far more unforgivably, to the fabric of cities, such as Bristol, by their own officials than was ever inflicted by the Luftwaffe. ...
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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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