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The Suffragette and Fascist Mary Richardson and the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery

The Suffragette and Fascist Mary Richardson and the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery

”Everything that Valasquez does may be regarded as absolutely right.” – John Ruskin ...
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Peace, Love & Hush Puppies: Far-Out Men’s Footwear from the 1970s

Peace, Love & Hush Puppies: Far-Out Men’s Footwear from the 1970s

  He's tightening his big-ass boot, which means he's already done the deed, and now ...
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April 1970: Chelsea Fans Waiting for The FA Cup Victors to Arrive at Euston Station

April 1970: Chelsea Fans Waiting for The FA Cup Victors to Arrive at Euston Station

On April 29 1970,  Chelsea fans camped out on the floors at London's Euston Station. They were waiting for their team to start their parade of the 1970 FA Cup after beating 'mighty' Leeds United at Old Trafford. ...
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This is not a Book! A Gallery of the Fotonovel, the Photostory, and Photonovels

This is not a Book! A Gallery of the Fotonovel, the Photostory, and Photonovels

In the era of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu, it’s difficult to explain to youngsters ...
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Castaways Behaving Badly: Gilligan’s Island Devilry Caught on Tape

Castaways Behaving Badly: Gilligan’s Island Devilry Caught on Tape

Are we to believe the Seven Castaways, trapped together on this desert island for several ...
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Smutty Sex-For-Sale Teletext Pages From 1980s German TV

Smutty Sex-For-Sale Teletext Pages From 1980s German TV

Over on Flashbak, you can read how the Internet killed Ceefax, that BBC infomation service ...
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Sex Sells Auto Equipment (Part 2)

Sex Sells Auto Equipment (Part 2)

  Auto equipment advertising in the 1960s-80s basically consisted of two components (1) the product ...
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Not Miss America: 37 Queens of Pageants Off-the-Beaten-Path

Not Miss America: 37 Queens of Pageants Off-the-Beaten-Path

  Beauty Pageants are a time-honored  tradition. It's become almost cliche to oppose them from ...
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Faces and fashions from Paris 1969

Faces and fashions from Paris 1969

In 1969, Pari U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy began secret ...
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That Manly Scent She Craves: Vintage Cologne and Aftershave Adverts

That Manly Scent She Craves: Vintage Cologne and Aftershave Adverts

Vintage cologne and aftershave advertising consisted of two elements: (1) manly superstuds, the hairier the ...
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Life during wartime: 33 colour photographs of America during the Second World War

Life during wartime: 33 colour photographs of America during the Second World War

American women worked hard on the home front during the Second World War building the ...
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15 Reasons The 1970s Were The Best Decade In Horror Cinema

15 Reasons The 1970s Were The Best Decade In Horror Cinema

This list of reasons why horror flicks of the 1970s were better than anything since ...
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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 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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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