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Dead! Undead!: The Many Posters of Bela Lugosi’s ‘Dracula’ 1931

The appeal of Browning's Dracula rests with Bela Lugosi's performance. He was the first to portray the Count on screen. Lugosi's Dracula is the one against which all other Counts must be judged. ...

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“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

A ‘centre of gaiety’ as one 1930s guide book put it, where thousands and thousands of people and almost as many cars ‘struggle in vain for freedom’. ...

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The Night Tallulah Bankhead Met Gerald du Maurier in London in 1923

There were a few people in the room including Daphne, Gerald’s 15 year old daughter, who after Tallulah had left turned to her father and said, “Daddy, that’s the most beautiful girl I ever saw in my life.” ...

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“It’s alright to be nude, but if it moves, it’s rude.” – The Extraordinary History of the Windmill Theatre

The World's press used the Windmill Theatre to symbolise London’s ‘Blitz Spirit’ often illustrated by similar stories of a naked young woman breaking the no-moving rule by either giving a V-sign or thumbing her nose at a nearby exploding bomb. ...

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The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

Their speciality is rhythm; rhythm which is merely a nervous tremor, and rhythm that does not so much stimulate as achieve frenzy! ...

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‘Pathetic, unjustifiable, appalling pornography’ – Fifty Years of Oh! Calcutta!

"In many ways it is a ghastly show: ill-written, juvenile, and attention-seeking. But it is not a menace". ...

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Evocative Photos of London’s West End in the 1950s

A keen photographer since childhood, Allan Hailstone’s beautiful images are a tribute to London of the 1950s. ...

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Photos of the West End of London, 1965-1968

Born in Australia Greg Lehey went to school in Malaysia, Australia and in England - these photographs were taken during several trips to London. ...

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Happy and Glorious! Fantastic Pictures of VE Day in London, 1945

London's party that ended all parties - one week after Hitler's suicide. ...

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Once the ‘Swingingest Street in the World’: Pictures of Carnaby Street 1924-1975

"Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the 'gear' boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other clothing..." - TIME magazine, April 1966 ...

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An Evening Stroll Around London’s West-End in November 1955

On the evening of 5th November Allan Hailstone went on a stroll around a brightly lit West End and here are some of his pictures he took that night… ...

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Captivating Pictures from a Stroll Around Soho on March 15 1966

Someone, for some reason, walked around Soho on this day and took some photographs, and here they are... ...

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