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1900: The smallest shop in London

1900: The smallest shop in London

IN 1900, this was the smallest shop in London - a  1.2 square meter shoe ...
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The Documerica Project: photos of Chicago’s black community in the 1970s

The Documerica Project: photos of Chicago’s black community in the 1970s

IN the 1970s, the US Government created Documerica Project (1971-1977). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
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The 1931 cooked hot-dog vending machine

The 1931 cooked hot-dog vending machine

IN 1931, you could buy a warm sausage from a German vending machine, like this ...
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Francis Ford Coppola’s original cast list for The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola’s original cast list for The Godfather

AROUND 1970: Francis Ford Coppola produced this potential cast list for The Godfather.
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Jane Elliott’s experiments in racism – blues eyes v brown eyes

Jane Elliott’s experiments in racism – blues eyes v brown eyes

  LET's talk about discrimination.YouTuber LudwingMedia harks back to 1970. Blue-eyed people are smarter than brown-eyed people. ...
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Vintage Americana: 35 objects that sold the American dream

Vintage Americana: 35 objects that sold the American dream

THESE objects represent the American Dream, the stuff that when I was growing in suburban ...
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Political memories: Hang Nelson Mandela before it’s too late (and Saddam Hussein was a ‘friendly’ guy)

Political memories: Hang Nelson Mandela before it’s too late (and Saddam Hussein was a ‘friendly’ guy)

AS the mawkish and ghoulish media hover around Nelson Mandela's hospital bed, we look back ...
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Conversations with my hotdog – an anti-LSD and meat film from the 1960s

Conversations with my hotdog – an anti-LSD and meat film from the 1960s

ONCE upon a time, LSD was the housewife's trip of choice. British soldiers had tested ...
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Sexy politicians: Ronald Reagan poses in his knickers

Sexy politicians: Ronald Reagan poses in his knickers

IN the interests of fairness, we balance the Top Ten Sexy Left Wing politicians ever ...
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In 1929 Jean-Paul Sartre took mescaline – that’s when the crabs started to follow him

In 1929 Jean-Paul Sartre took mescaline – that’s when the crabs started to follow him

IN 1929, Jean-Paul Sartre met  Simone De Beauvoir and took some mescaline. These two events were not linked. He ...
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The Great Train Robbery – the story in photos

The Great Train Robbery – the story in photos

THE Great Train Robbery was the 1963 crime immortalised in film, books, TV shows and ...
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1980 snapshot: Lady Diana Spencer stalls her Mini Metro outside her Earl’s Court flat

1980 snapshot: Lady Diana Spencer stalls her Mini Metro outside her Earl’s Court flat

FLASHBACK snapshot: 1980 - "Lady Diana Spencer's look of astonishment as she stalls her car ...
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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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