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Max Factor showcases the Beauty Micrometer

Max Factor showcases the Beauty Micrometer

FLASHBACK to January 1935: Max Factor showcases the Beauty Micrometer, a device "perfected" by the make-up ...
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The Hitler pin cushion (photos of Roosevelt’s desk toy)

The Hitler pin cushion (photos of Roosevelt’s desk toy)

IT'S 1941 and for just $1.49 you can own an Adolf Hitler pin cushion. As ...
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Flashback: The Indoor League – 81 pints and the Terry Yorath table-football fight

Flashback: The Indoor League – 81 pints and the Terry Yorath table-football fight

THE Indoor League was broadcast live from the Leeds Irish Centre. Your host was Fred ...
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A modern history of Vandals: why do they do it?

A modern history of Vandals: why do they do it?

VANDALS: why do they do it? No sooner had the first golden post box been ...
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Groucho Marx endorses lightbulb snatching and more

Groucho Marx endorses lightbulb snatching and more

GROUCHO Marx was a funny man.But could he make you buy thing? Would a Groucho ...
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The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

CONTINUING Anorak's look a bicycles and cycling, we bring you the 1955 Huffy Radio Bike. ...
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Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes

Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes

IT'S 1953 and Groucho Marx's television show You Bet Your Life is on the magic box. But not ...
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The cycling sewing machine of 1939

The cycling sewing machine of 1939

CYCLING. CYCLING! That's good, Olympic champions Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton. But can ...
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A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

ITS as easy as riding a bike. So they say. It turns out that the ...
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A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

SIR Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins have got us all on our bikes. But a ...
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The best and worst Olympic protests

The best and worst Olympic protests

WHEN the Spanish water polo coach considered ordering his team to stay in the pool, ...
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Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

WHO was the mystery woman in red top and jeans, marching proudly at the front ...
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    Photographs of London’s Kings Cross Before the Change – c.1990

    Photographs of London’s Kings Cross Before the Change – c.1990

    Before the money moved in, Kings Cross was a place for born-and-bred locals, clubs and crime ...
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    Photos of Topless Dancers and Bottomless Drinks At New York City’s Raciest Clubs – c. 1977

    Photos of Topless Dancers and Bottomless Drinks At New York City’s Raciest Clubs – c. 1977

    See what really went on during that time in NYC's topless go-go bars ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

    Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

    In a book that became to be known as 'The People of the Abyss' London described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and even on the streets. ...
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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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    Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

    Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

    "I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Even when he fell in love - and that was frequently - he was never submerged by disappointment. Cheerfulness kept creeping in." - Douglas Percy Bliss on his friend Eric Ravilious from their time at the Royal College of Art   Eric Ravilious loved ...
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    Photographs of the Wonderful Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

    Photographs of the Wonderful Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

    Yes I have a dark side, doesn’t everyone? I’ve played a lot of evil, ball-breaking women. And, if you’re honest, you’ll just drag up from the depths all the times you’ve hated or felt passionately about something and play it. ...
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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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    Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

    Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

      At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - an unexceptional and damp space that was once a sort of rest room for taxi drivers and an occasional tea bar - Ronnie Scott opened his first jazz club. Along with Ronnie himself and his ...
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    The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

    The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

    "It is time for art to flow into the organisation of life." - Alexander Rodchenko, 1921 ...
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