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Waugh, Waugh, Not Jaw, Jaw: An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh’s Best Books

Waugh, Waugh, Not Jaw, Jaw: An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh’s Best Books

Writer Duncan McLaren introduces us to a shared love of Evelyn Waugh ...
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When The Warning Sounds : Nuclear War Survival Pamphlets – 1959-1961

When The Warning Sounds : Nuclear War Survival Pamphlets – 1959-1961

This might well be the last thing you read before The Bomb drops. Do not be afraid. Act now. ...
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Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan

Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan

Banned in Japan: when giant catfish shook the country ...
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Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression : The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers

Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression : The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers

60 hobo signs, used in the Great Depression by transient working class men and women who traveled by train, looking for jobs and sustenance ...
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Moving People At Chicago’s Union Station In January 1943 by Jack Delano

Moving People At Chicago’s Union Station In January 1943 by Jack Delano

Jack Delano's honest and telling photographs of people coming and going at Chicago's Union Station ...
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Buy Prints ‘Filled with Intuitions and Conjectures’ – Bruno Schulz, the Man who Knew What he Didn’t Know

‘Filled with Intuitions and Conjectures’ – Bruno Schulz, the Man who Knew What he Didn’t Know

A man whose wonderful imagination was caught up in a ‘swarm of identities and nationalities’.  ...
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Inside the 80s and 90s New York Drag Clubs that Made RuPaul a Star

Inside the 80s and 90s New York Drag Clubs that Made RuPaul a Star

It was “a hedonistic, wild atmosphere because I think the police were too busy dealing with crime, that they didn’t have time or clubs weren’t much of a concern.” ...
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A Dutch Spy’s Photographs of the Liberation of the Netherlands – May 1945

A Dutch Spy’s Photographs of the Liberation of the Netherlands – May 1945

Menno Huizinga (October 28, 1907 - September 14, 1947) was a Dutch photographer working as a spy for the Resistance. He was then when the Germans surrendered ...
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The Inglorious History of King’s Cross and its Station – a haunt of Thieves and Murderers

The Inglorious History of King’s Cross and its Station – a haunt of Thieves and Murderers

When King’s Cross station opened on 14th October 1852 the building was greatly admired but in an era famed for the opposite the station was as practical and lacking of superfluous ornament as the locomotives it was made to house. ...
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The Weekend Starts Here! Amazing Photos of the Classic Pop TV Show – Ready Steady Go!

The Weekend Starts Here! Amazing Photos of the Classic Pop TV Show – Ready Steady Go!

John Varney, Sheffield 'Ace Face' replied 'are you kidding mate - the weekend starts here' and the slogan was born. ...
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Marilyn Monroe Stars In The Brilliant  Day-Glo Designers Guide – 1969

Marilyn Monroe Stars In The Brilliant Day-Glo Designers Guide – 1969

The Day-Glo Corporation produced this lush coil-bound book in 1969 to showcase their latest line of fluorescent inks. ...
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Dr Harold Norman Fisk’s Outstanding Maps of the Mississippi River – 1944

Dr Harold Norman Fisk’s Outstanding Maps of the Mississippi River – 1944

Geographer's lush maps flow like the River their depict ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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