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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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Nazis, Traitors and Bloody Murderers – The Astonishing History of London’s Poshest Square

Owned by Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke of Westminster and the world’s richest person under thirty, the land came into the family when his ancestor, Sir Thomas Grosvenor, married a 12 year old girl called Mary Davis in 1677. ...

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New York City Crowds In The Early And Mid 20th Century

Photographs of crowds of people in the city that never sleeps ...

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Alma Mahler : The Muse Who Married Three Brilliant Men And Became A Jealous Artist’s Swan-Skin Love Doll

The woman who shagged the brightest brains of central Europe and drove a former lover to an act of memorable nuttiness ...

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The Other Suffragettes: the Women Who Kept Fighting for the Right to Vote After the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Passed

“The contributions of Asian American, Latina, and Native American suffragists are just beginning to be examined by scholars,” writes the Library of Congress, “but there is still much work to be done regarding all women of color.” ...

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A Brief History of Hand-washing: How a Basic Hygienic Practice Took Decades to Catch On

The history of handwashing involves far more than a change in personal habits over time, but a shift in the understanding of the state’s role in public health. ...

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Houdini Beats The Devils: A Magician Among The Spiritualists, Fakirs and Psychics

Harry Houdini (1874-1926), the great showman and escapologist, sought to debunk the 1920s fashion for spiritualism in his book A Magician Among The Spirits (1924) ...

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Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Chun discovered a species so terrifying, he called it Vampyrotheuthis infernalis, or “vampire squid from hell,” just one of the many creatures he found, then dissected, labeled, and named. ...

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Two Brothers Photographed Every Stage of the New York City Subway Construction, from 1900-1939

“Using cameras with 8-by-10-inch glass negatives,” the brothers “were assigned to record the progress of construction as well as every dislodged flagstone, every cracked brick, every odd building and anything that smelled like a possible lawsuit.” ...

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Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Seeing wonder in the small - looking at the 'German Darwin's' world of wonder ...

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A Glorious Selection of Vintage Leap Year Cards

These cards reminds us that every four years a lady may ask a man for his hand in marriage ...

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Carry on England: The Scathing Caricatures and Bawdy Erotica of Thomas Rowlandson (NSFW-ish)

It should have happened. A Carry On movie loosely based on the life of artist, caricaturist and all-round bad-boy Thomas Rowlandson. ...

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