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The Dickie Valentine Years

The Dickie Valentine Years

A READER wants to know the identity of the woman sat on the Brighton beach ...
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Amazing photos of closed records stores and vinyl shoppers

Amazing photos of closed records stores and vinyl shoppers

RECORDS stores are closing. We've compiled gallery of the shops you used to love. Look ...
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Flashback – Miss UK 1962

Flashback – Miss UK 1962

FLASHBACK to September 4, 1962: "A sudden shower forces Miss UK finalists to cover up ...
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Mildred (Cyclone) Burke defeats Leona (Babe) Gordon to become women’s wrestling championship of the world

Mildred (Cyclone) Burke defeats Leona (Babe) Gordon to become women’s wrestling championship of the world

FLASHBACK Photos of the Day. The AP reports: "Mildred (Cyclone) Burke of Kansas City, Missouri, ...
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1966 and all that keyring craze in Paris

1966 and all that keyring craze in Paris

IT'S 1966. It's Paris. And keyrings are a craze among the cool kids. Cue the ...
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Miss World of the 1940s and 1950s – the changing face of beauty

Miss World of the 1940s and 1950s – the changing face of beauty

FLASHBACK looks at contestants in the Miss World and Miss America beauty pageants from the ...
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Violet and Daisy Hilton – The World’s Only Strip-Teasing Siamese Twins

Violet and Daisy Hilton – The World’s Only Strip-Teasing Siamese Twins

FLASHBACK Photo of The Day: October 6 1933 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, "Siamese Twins", ...
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A history of politicians crying

A history of politicians crying

The art and artfulness of crying lik a politician: Ken Livingstone NORMALLY, one would feel ...
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Peter Rand’s Faces of the 1960s

Peter Rand’s Faces of the 1960s

A Collection of photographer Peter Rand's 1960s subjects are on show at the National Portrait ...
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How racist American comic books won World War 2 – 20 photos

How racist American comic books won World War 2 – 20 photos

IN World War 2, the US called up Superman, Captain America, Batman and others to ...
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Police in action 1939-1945: photos of a time or racism, riots, murder and joy

Police in action 1939-1945: photos of a time or racism, riots, murder and joy

WHAT was it like for the police between 1939 and 1945? We've raided the archives ...
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Amphetamines are good for you – selling drugs to the fat and depressed (photos)

Amphetamines are good for you – selling drugs to the fat and depressed (photos)

AMPHETAMINES were once legal. They were advertised as being good for you and yours. Appetrol ...
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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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