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Extraordinary Tales from Three Extraordinary London Pubs

Extraordinary Tales from Three Extraordinary London Pubs

To celebrate the opening of pubs in England’s capital city (at long last) here are some curious tales from three London pubs… ...
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The Space Shuttle Console Archive: The Joy of A Beautiful Button

The Space Shuttle Console Archive: The Joy of A Beautiful Button

The simple pleasure of a well-designed knob ...
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The Children’s Pet Shows at Venice Beach, California – c. 1936

The Children’s Pet Shows at Venice Beach, California – c. 1936

What we know about these children's pets shows is small. Can you help identify the contestants? ...
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The Alien Detection Kit: Carl Jung’s 1957 Letter on UFOs

The Alien Detection Kit: Carl Jung’s 1957 Letter on UFOs

In 1957, Carl Jung was asked to share his views on UFOs, a subject that had interested him for years ...
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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen’s Illustrations of Cats in Fin de Siecle Paris

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen’s Illustrations of Cats in Fin de Siecle Paris

  'Des Chats-Dessins sans paroles' (Cats- Pictures without Words) is a book of 1897 by ...
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Riding The Amtrak Round America in The Summer of 1974

Riding The Amtrak Round America in The Summer of 1974

A large collection of photographs of riding trains around the US South West in 1974 ...
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People of London : Fights, Food and Factory Girls – 1902

People of London : Fights, Food and Factory Girls – 1902

Pictures from 'Living London' by George R. Sims, published in 1902 ...
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A Walk Around Brixton in The 1980s

A Walk Around Brixton in The 1980s

We're on a walking tour of 1980s Brixton in South London in the company of Peter Marshall ...
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John Steinbeck’s Wonderful Letter On Racism – 1937

John Steinbeck’s Wonderful Letter On Racism – 1937

"If I had enough money, I would take busloads of people out to the fields ...
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Bombs, Jazz And Junkers – The Birth Of Record Collecting

Bombs, Jazz And Junkers – The Birth Of Record Collecting

If you've compiled a discography you owe something to Brian Rust, the 'sage of Edgware' ...
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Plane Spotters At Gatwick Airport, 1983

Plane Spotters At Gatwick Airport, 1983

Approved by the Air Ministry for commercial flights in 1933, the small aerodrome built in the 1920s became the throbbing Gatwick Airport, London's second airport after Heathrow. ...
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Retro Thai Film Posters Tell You Everything You Want To Know About A Movie

Retro Thai Film Posters Tell You Everything You Want To Know About A Movie

Thai movie posters may not be the best works of art in the world but they do the one thing a good film poster ought to do: they tell you everything you want to know about a movie without having to think too hard. ...
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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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