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George Cox: The Origins of the Diano Brothel Creeper

George Cox: The Origins of the Diano Brothel Creeper

"My Dad told me that Malcolm turned up with an original pair of our creepers from the 50s asking if we could remake them” ...
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What’s Your Sign? A Look at the 1970s Zodiac Fad

What’s Your Sign? A Look at the 1970s Zodiac Fad

Examples of the many varied places the zodiac popped up in pop culture in the late sixties and seventies ...
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Mississippi Burning: Danny Lyon On Assignment With Civil Rights And Dangerous Minds

Mississippi Burning: Danny Lyon On Assignment With Civil Rights And Dangerous Minds

“You’re shaking now, boy. You’re going to be shaking a lot harder when we’re done with you” ...
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The Tale of Bobby Britt and ‘Prudes on the Prowl’ at the Empire Theatre

The Tale of Bobby Britt and ‘Prudes on the Prowl’ at the Empire Theatre

‘But Mr Britt was going to give us a Salome dance!’ ...
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Edwardian Street Style – Photos by Edward Linley Sambourne

Edwardian Street Style – Photos by Edward Linley Sambourne

Creepy it might have been but these photographs taken in 1906/7 enable us today to see the natural posture and clothes of women walking around Kensington and west London of the time. ...
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Naked and Demolished In Runcorn: The Scandalous Tale of James Stirling’s Lost Utopia

Naked and Demolished In Runcorn: The Scandalous Tale of James Stirling’s Lost Utopia

  Hugh Pearman tells the scandalous tale of James Stirling’s lost Utopia: In July 1981, in ...
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Images of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art

Images of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art

“I saw her as a righteous woman, a sister, an elder who didn’t crack” ...
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Oooh Fashion! David Bowie’s Style Changes 1972-76

Oooh Fashion! David Bowie’s Style Changes 1972-76

"The impact of Bowie's image was such that US fanzine Rock Scene was soon running features on ‘how to make a Ziggy Stardust leotard’ and British women's magazines included patterns for the ‘Do It Yourself David Bowie Look'" ...
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Thamesmead 1975: London’s Soulless City of The Future

Thamesmead 1975: London’s Soulless City of The Future

The 'town of the twenty-first century’ ...
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A Teenager’s Secret Street Photography From 19th Century Oslo

A Teenager’s Secret Street Photography From 19th Century Oslo

Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer (3 September 1874 – 13 August 1957), a renowned mathematician and ...
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The Anthony Burgess Centenary: An ‘Unforgettable Evening of Typewriters, Music, Rough Cider and Poison Pen Letters’

The Anthony Burgess Centenary: An ‘Unforgettable Evening of Typewriters, Music, Rough Cider and Poison Pen Letters’

"When you exhume a Sicilian who has been in the grave for 2000 years, he’ll tell you vaffanculo and then he’ll rather self-pityingly say: ‘Why did you wake me? I haven’t finished plotting my revenge yet.’ I rather think if we dug up Anthony Burgess, we would get something similar." - Jonathan Meades ...
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Two at a Table: Vintage Photos of Couples Having a Meal

Two at a Table: Vintage Photos of Couples Having a Meal

As the saying goes, food tastes better when we eat together.  Let's have a look ...
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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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