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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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RIP Alex Higgins: A Misspent Life In Pictures

RIP Alex Higgins: A Misspent Life In Pictures

RIP Alex Higgins. You lived life as in-door Hurricane of smoke and blue snooker chalk. ...
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The Soho Colony Room’s Last Man Standing

The Soho Colony Room’s Last Man Standing

RIP Michael Wojas. You were the third and last owner of Soho’s Colony Room club. ...
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The Field Gun Competition

The Field Gun Competition

IT is ten years since the Royal Navy Field Gun Competition was last run at ...
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Operation Dynamo In Photos (1940)

Operation Dynamo In Photos (1940)

In May 1940, Operation Dynamo, an armada of mostly fishing vessels and privately owned boats, set ...
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RIP Ray Alan: Lord Charles Is Cremated (In Pictures)

RIP Ray Alan: Lord Charles Is Cremated (In Pictures)

RIP Ray Allen. You were Lord Charles' Handler in the day when radio ventriloquist was ...
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The Greatest Election Films Ever: Kinnock The Movie

The Greatest Election Films Ever: Kinnock The Movie

As the British nation prepares to go to the polls for the general election, the ...
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    Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s

    Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s

    The boy I had been following in particular was Fernando Madrid, one of Lydia Madrid’s six kids. Fernando played hooky a lot ...
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    Ernest Hemingway’s List of 16 Books Any Writer Should Read as a Part of Their Education

    Ernest Hemingway’s List of 16 Books Any Writer Should Read as a Part of Their Education

    Plus Hemingway's tips on how to write as told to his one and only protégé ...
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    Gerda Wegener’s Erotic Illustrations For Les Delassements d’Eros 1925 (NSFW)

    Gerda Wegener’s Erotic Illustrations For Les Delassements d’Eros 1925 (NSFW)

    Gerda Wegener caused a sensation with her gorgeous images of beautiful women - her art is equal to it ...
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    Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

    Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

    For Christmas 1960, Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) designed greeting cards for Hallmark ...
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    Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

    Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

    Gerta Pohorylle adopted the professional name of "Gerda Taro" after the Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto although initially Taro and Capa shared the name "Robert Capa" derived from Endre Friedmann's Budapest street nickname "Cápa" which means "Shark" in Hungarian. A significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was almost certainly photographed by Taro. ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    ‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

    ‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

    Much of the food we tried in London -- and in England generally -- was bland, tasteless, and (in restaurants) overcooked, as we'd been told it would be. Saying no to it was easy. ...
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    Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

    Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

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    The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

    The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

    In 1961, The New Yorker commissioned Arendt to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem ...
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    Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

    Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

    People I like can be divided into two groups: a) those who enjoy and get Charles M. Schulz’s wonderful Peanuts comic strip; b) those fools who don't. All of human life is in the artist and writer's 17,897 comic strips. In 1968 Schulz noticed the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King ...
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