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Down These Mean Streets: John Creasey Walked

Down These Mean Streets: John Creasey Walked

If author John Creasey had been born in France (like say Simenon) or America (like Hammett, McBain or Ellroy), then he would be hailed as one the greatest crime writers of all time. ...
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Dirty Postcards: Vintage erotic photographs from over a century ago (NSFW)

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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Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

How Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter brought down the Tory Government! ...
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Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter found signs of something beautiful that connects us all in pictures of a wet New York ...
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Gorgeous Japanese Firework Illustrations From The Late 1800s

Gorgeous Japanese Firework Illustrations From The Late 1800s

These illustrations of 花火, Hanabi (fireworks or “fire flowers”),  advertised Japan's Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks companies in the late 19th century. ...
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Edwin Morgan and William Burroughs Are ‘Somewhere in England’

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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Thrill List: Quentin Crisp Picks His 10 favourite Gangster Movies

Thrill List: Quentin Crisp Picks His 10 favourite Gangster Movies

"If we go to the movies often enough, and in a sufficiently reverent spirit, they will become more absorbing than the outer world, and the problems of reality will cease to burden us." ...
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Found Photos of the Soviet Summer Camps that Trained Generations of Young Communists

Found Photos of the Soviet Summer Camps that Trained Generations of Young Communists

Every society creates institutions to train children in social mores, civil rituals, and political and religious beliefs—through education, advertising, communal practices, and youth organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The Soviet Union was no different. ...
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Boxing Day In Pictures: Wonderful Photos Of December 26 (1900-2000)

Boxing Day In Pictures: Wonderful Photos Of December 26 (1900-2000)

December 26 is St Stephen's Day, when the Church distributed charity boxes to the needy but can also be traced back to when the wealthy gave their servants a box of Christmas treats; hence Boxing Day. ...
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Peter Cushing: His Early Life to Hammer & Star Wars

Peter Cushing: His Early Life to Hammer & Star Wars

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do. ...
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A Chocolate Box Selection of Celebrity Santa Clauses

A Chocolate Box Selection of Celebrity Santa Clauses

In this gallery from the archives we look at famous faces who over the years ...
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New York City by Martin Lewis – Edward Hopper’s Mentor Captures America’s Success And Failure

New York City by Martin Lewis – Edward Hopper’s Mentor Captures America’s Success And Failure

In the 1930s an Australian emigree captured the essence of the city ...
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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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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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