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Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was ...

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When the Alarm Clock Was a Person: The “Knocker-Uppers” of Industrial-Era Britain

Rural laborers, used to keeping time with the seasons, relocated to manufacturing towns and cities at significant rates. They not only had to adjust to dangerous, fast-paced industrial work, but to new schedules... ...

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“Scotland for the Holidays” – Gorgeous Railway Brochures and Posters From the 1930s

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) were the two largest of the “Big Four” railway companies by the Railways Act of 1921. In fact the LMS was the world’s largest transport organisation and the United Kingdom’s second largest employer, after the Post Office. ...

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A Girl’s Handmade Record of Her Cats’ Whiskers From 1941

An extraordinary book and an unusual hobby ...

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Lobby Cards to Swinging Sixties’ Spy Thriller ‘A Dandy in Aspic’

"The surest way to be out of fashion tomorrow is to be in the forefront of it today" - Derek Marlowe ...

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Dirty Postcards: Vintage erotic photographs from over a century ago (NSFW)

Dirty postcards sounds disapproving, censorious as if there is something wrong, something shameful about the naked body (like Adam and Eve covering their nakedness from God) and something deeply unsavoury about sexual intercourse. ...

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Edwin Morgan and William Burroughs Are ‘Somewhere in England’

"Push the boat out, compañeros / Push the boat out, whatever the seas…. push it ...

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Photographs of Portobello Road in 1950

Walking up “the Lane”, as we called it, was a stroll through the English class system even then as one progressed towards Holland Park. Notting Hill didn’t become gentrified – it always was. What happened was that North Kensington became Notting Hill. ...

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Liverpool in the 1980s – Poignant Photos by Dave Sinclair

An official photographer for Militant, Dave Sinclair’s stunning images show a city that refused to lie down in the face of adversity. ...

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London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater

Down in the dimly lit Tunnels, the Tube was one photographer's playground ...

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Wonderful Kodachrome Photos of London in 1949

Four fabulous colour photographs of London in 1949 ...

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Dennis Wheatley, the Prince of Thriller Writers, and How He Helped Defeat the Nazis

Wheatley was pretty well a quasi-fascist during most of the 1930s (Hermann Goering was a fan of his books and once invited him to Germany to meet the Nazi leaders) but somehow, and with the recommendation of his wife who was an MI5 driver, he ended up working in the offices of the War Cabinet. ...

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