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Politics And Alcohol Part One

Politics And Alcohol Part One

Politics And Alcohol Part One: “ME. Churchill enjoys a drink,” remarked the great statesman’s former ...
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How Lancashire Football Took Over The National Game

How Lancashire Football Took Over The National Game

Burnley's return to the top flight of English football was highly symbolic. First, it came ...
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The Greatest Ever 4-Eyed Footballers

The Greatest Ever 4-Eyed Footballers

  The Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue” tells the tale of a man ...
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Football: A History Of The Throw In

Football: A History Of The Throw In

Throwbacks: The loneliness of the long-distance launcher - Flashbak's look at the football throw in. SHOULD ...
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The Adare Anglians Save England

The Adare Anglians Save England

ENGLAND went to the 1970 World Cup as defending champions. They had a better team ...
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Birmingham’s Supporting Feature, With Telly Savalas And Baim

Birmingham’s Supporting Feature, With Telly Savalas And Baim

AND now for our supporting feature… I have happy memories of Birmingham, where he lived for ...
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Oh Golly: A Brief History Of The Golliwog

Oh Golly: A Brief History Of The Golliwog

  CAROL Thatcher’s “golliwog” remark has put the issue into the news for the first ...
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Flagging Economy: I’m Backing Britain, Again (1967)


Flagging Economy: I’m Backing Britain, Again (1967)

“SPEND, spend, spend” is the order of the day, as we are urged to do ...
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Tongue, Glorious Tongue! Food As It Used To Be

Tongue, Glorious Tongue! Food As It Used To Be

Tongue, glorious tongue! Fish paste! Tinned peach slices!! Ox tongue!!! They had it all in ...
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In Living Colour: A Short History Of British Television

In Living Colour: A Short History Of British Television

BRITAIN was the first country in Europe to provide regular colour television broadcasts. Early experiments ...
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To Berlin! England Expects In Germany

To Berlin! England Expects In Germany

GEORGE Orwell famously described international sport as war minus the shooting, and nowhere in English ...
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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

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