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London Olympics 1948: Photos Of The First Austerity Games

London Olympics 1948: Photos Of The First Austerity Games

LONDON Olympics 1948: These Games were the second to be staged in London. In 1908, ...
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Decimalisation: 40 Years Ago Britain Did Away With Pounds, Shillings And Pence

Decimalisation: 40 Years Ago Britain Did Away With Pounds, Shillings And Pence

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Royal Weddings In Photos: A Pictorial History Of British Royals Marrying

Royal Weddings In Photos: A Pictorial History Of British Royals Marrying

ROYAL Wedding in Photos: Kate Middleton and Prince William are to marry. It’ll be great. ...
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Vintage Ads: Go Gay Hair

Vintage Ads: Go Gay Hair

GO GAY was "The first holding pray with shine right in it". Brought to you ...
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Topsy And Tim Meet the Police: A Child’s Book At Spoof Time

Topsy And Tim Meet the Police: A Child’s Book At Spoof Time

THE arrival of a new Ladybird book is always a cause of rejoicing, particularly if ...
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Paris In World War 2: Photos Of The Nazi Joie De Vivre

Paris In World War 2: Photos Of The Nazi Joie De Vivre

WHEN Paris fell to the Germans in world war two, what was life like in ...
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Peter Rabbit – Tank Killer: When Sven Hassel Met Beatrix Potter

Peter Rabbit – Tank Killer: When Sven Hassel Met Beatrix Potter

IT was the literary partnership of the century. Two best-selling writers from very different genres ...
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The Bay City Rollers And Ann Margaret’s Saturday Night Special: The Greatest Audience Video

The Bay City Rollers And Ann Margaret’s Saturday Night Special: The Greatest Audience Video

You know the feeling. With a heavy heart, you slump down in front of the television ...
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Get ‘Em Off! The Nostalgia-Proof British Sex Comedy

Get ‘Em Off! The Nostalgia-Proof British Sex Comedy

WE British are scorned by the world for our attitude to sex. Unsophisticated, unromantic, unimaginative, ...
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Sir Norman Wisdom: A Life In 36 Rare Pictures

Sir Norman Wisdom: A Life In 36 Rare Pictures

SIR Norman Wisdom RIP. He retired from the stage on his 90th birthday. He died ...
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The Battle Of Britain In Photos: 70 Years Ago Today Germany Attacked In A Blitz

The Battle Of Britain In Photos: 70 Years Ago Today Germany Attacked In A Blitz

SEVENTY years ago today, the Germans began to bomb London. Today, 2,500 people packed into ...
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The Saucy Seaside Postcard: A Gallery Of Smut, Sex And Suggestiveness

The Saucy Seaside Postcard: A Gallery Of Smut, Sex And Suggestiveness

Let's looks back at the British saucy seaside postcard, including works by Phil Millar (Pedro) ...
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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

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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

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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

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