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Historic Cars: Collectible Shell Oil Coins for ’70’s Petrol Heads

Historic Cars: Collectible Shell Oil Coins for ’70’s Petrol Heads

In 1970, Shell hoped youngsters would appreciate their brand by issuing a series of twenty collectible coins. ...
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‘The Rake’s Progress’ and William Hogarth’s Six Points Essential to Good Art

‘The Rake’s Progress’ and William Hogarth’s Six Points Essential to Good Art

Brit Art didn't start in the 1990s with Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and all that. It really began in the 1700s with William Hogarth, who was the Daddy of them all. ...
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Eric Morley and the First Miss World Contest Seventy Years Ago

Eric Morley and the First Miss World Contest Seventy Years Ago

Morley once described the kind of young women he was looking for: ‘Girls between 17 and 25, ideally five foot seven, eight or nine stone, waist 22–24′′, hips 35–36′′, no more no less, a lovely face, good teeth, plenty of hair, and perfectly shaped legs from front and back – carefully checked for such defects as slightly knocked knees.’ ...
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‘That, as sure as hell, is showbiz’ – When Johnnie Ray met Judy Garland in Luton in 1969

‘That, as sure as hell, is showbiz’ – When Johnnie Ray met Judy Garland in Luton in 1969

Poor old Johnnie Ray, Sounded sad upon the radio; He moved a million hearts in Mono. Our mothers cried; Sang along, who’d blame them. ...
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A Midnight Special – Hear The Clash’s 1976 London Gig

A Midnight Special – Hear The Clash’s 1976 London Gig

  On Sunday 29th August 1976,  impresario Malcolm McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April ...
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Illustrations From A 1875 Astronomy Book

Illustrations From A 1875 Astronomy Book

The wonder of illustrating perpetual movement in space ...
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24 Photos of People on Camden High Street, London in 1990

24 Photos of People on Camden High Street, London in 1990

Photos of People of Camden High Street in 1990 ...
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Gorgeous Illustrations From Prentzinger’s Celestial Atlas – 1851

Gorgeous Illustrations From Prentzinger’s Celestial Atlas – 1851

The celestial atlas features 12 plates, five of which are perforated and backed with translucent coloured paper to allow planets, moon and more to be illuminated from behind. ...
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Mid-Century Chicago in Kodachrome

Mid-Century Chicago in Kodachrome

In the mid-20th Century, Chicago ...
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Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers & Writing

Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers & Writing

Read Stephen King's rules for writing and you too can sell millions of books - maybe... ...
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The Oxford Street of the South – A Short Fabulous Retail History of Brixton

The Oxford Street of the South – A Short Fabulous Retail History of Brixton

Ian Nairn, the architectural critic, described Brixton Market as “stalls everywhere, arcades everywhere, diving through buildings and under the railway. Meat, fish, nylons, detergent: an endless convoluted cornucopia”. ...
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Painting Flowers With Autochrome Photographs In The 1920s

Painting Flowers With Autochrome Photographs In The 1920s

The autochrome is an early form of colour photography.The vivid colours the photographs have a ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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