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22 Snapshots of Men In Killer Sunglasses – The Future’s So Bright

22 Snapshots of Men In Killer Sunglasses – The Future’s So Bright

Snapshots of mid-century men in great sunglasses ...
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The Harvard Computers –  The Forgotten Female Scientists Who Mapped Space

The Harvard Computers – The Forgotten Female Scientists Who Mapped Space

"We cannot maintain that in everything woman is man’s equal, yet in many things her ...
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Books By Their Covers: Ernest Hemingway in the 1960s and early ’70s

Books By Their Covers: Ernest Hemingway in the 1960s and early ’70s

  Ernest Hemingway's book titles are like short poems: The Sun Also Rises A Farewell ...
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They See Us: John Alinder’s Portraits of People of Sweden From 100 Years Ago

They See Us: John Alinder’s Portraits of People of Sweden From 100 Years Ago

As if their gaze can travel the hundred years or so that lie between their time and ours. As if they were saying, “You are alive now, but we were once alive” ...
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The Roads That Nearly Destroyed London

The Roads That Nearly Destroyed London

Thomas Ableman remembers when city planners wanted to make London one giant motorway... ...
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Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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Illustrations From Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast by Philip Henry Gosse – 1853

Illustrations From Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast by Philip Henry Gosse – 1853

Philip Henry Gosse's records of lie on Earth (and how it got there) ...
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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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    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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