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The Kray Twins and the Esmeralda’s Barn Casino in Knightsbridge

The Kray Twins and the Esmeralda’s Barn Casino in Knightsbridge

"A three-tiered barn of gold, a licence to print money" - Charlie Kray ...
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Christmas Hits: Those Seventies Seasonal Smashes

Christmas Hits: Those Seventies Seasonal Smashes

Seventies Seasonal Smashes - from the time when Christmas records ruled the Earth ...
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Buy Prints We Do Lockdown – Miriam Elia’s Brilliant 1950s Spoof Mocks Covid-19

We Do Lockdown – Miriam Elia’s Brilliant 1950s Spoof Mocks Covid-19

So grab your face mask and satchel and join Mummy, John and Susan as they venture out in this fearful new world. ...
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The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

Belgian scientist Léon Becker and French artist Fortuné Méaulle enlist insects to teach us our A to Z ...
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When Paris Burned: Dramatic Photographs of the 1968 Paris Uprisings

When Paris Burned: Dramatic Photographs of the 1968 Paris Uprisings

“I’ve never seen such violence in a western capital as I saw in Paris that month” - Bruno Barbey ...
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The Soviet Sex Alphabet by Sergey Merkurov, 1931 (NSFW)

The Soviet Sex Alphabet by Sergey Merkurov, 1931 (NSFW)

In 1931 a revered Soviet patriot took a break from making grandiose statues of Lenin to create an erotic alphabet ...
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Fifty Years Ago: Angry Brigade and the Motley Crew of Miss World Judges in 1970

Fifty Years Ago: Angry Brigade and the Motley Crew of Miss World Judges in 1970

“While the girls are changing into their extremely expensive evening gowns...” ...
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Buy Prints 31 Visions of Hell, Satan, Demons And Cabbalistic Signs From A 1775 Compendium Of Horrors

31 Visions of Hell, Satan, Demons And Cabbalistic Signs From A 1775 Compendium Of Horrors

Visions of Hell, Satan and Demons according to the Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros, 1775 ...
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Guilty! Orson Welles’ Film of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’

Guilty! Orson Welles’ Film of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’

As Welles told Peter Bogdanovich he was attracted to Kafka's novel as he "had recurring nightmares of guilt" and of being put on trial throughout his life: ...
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Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard was a publisher and spy for the British crown who never left the Netherlands and drew surreal Indian Ocean fish ...
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Alfred Wertheimer’s Incredible Photos of Elvis On The Cusp Of Greatness – 1956

Alfred Wertheimer’s Incredible Photos of Elvis On The Cusp Of Greatness – 1956

“He permitted closeness. Without that I wouldn’t have gotten my intimate photographs. With Elvis, you ...
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Home of the Beats: How City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Made Radical Poetry Popular

Home of the Beats: How City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Made Radical Poetry Popular

The combination paperback-only bookstore and literary publisher proved revolutionary in the 1950s and 60s. ...
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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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