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Every Saturday at Great Homer Street Market, Liverpool in the 1980s and 90s

Every Saturday at Great Homer Street Market, Liverpool in the 1980s and 90s

Tom Wood's great photos of shoppers at the 'Greatie' ...
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‘Learning Science’ – a 1977 Science Textbook for Kids, Stoners and the Wasted

‘Learning Science’ – a 1977 Science Textbook for Kids, Stoners and the Wasted

The text book Learning Science, from the classrooms of 1977 - has a benign enough looking cover, but what lurks inside are some seriously seventies illustrations... ...
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MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

In the 1930s the British high-street store W.H.Smith & Son operated a vast commercial empire and they commissioned artist MacDonald Gill to produce a map of the company's world. ...
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Photos From A Trip Around England in 1977

Photos From A Trip Around England in 1977

In October 1977, Mats Örn flew in to London from his native Sweden. He landed at Stanstead Airport to the east of the city in Essex, once a wartime airfield serving the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces but since converted into a commercial airport. ...
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The Girl Suspended For Wearing Pants – New York City, 1942

The Girl Suspended For Wearing Pants – New York City, 1942

In March 1942 Beverley Bernstein, 16, was sent home for her Brooklyn NYC school for wearing trousers. A protest ensued... ...
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‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away from the microphone with tears in his eyes: “never mind him making you cry, he could make himself cry!” ...
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Views of Notre Dame and Paris – 1920

Views of Notre Dame and Paris – 1920

Photographs of Paris made circa 1920 by photographer by Pierre-Yves Petit, aka 'Yvon' ...
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The Greatest Show on Earth! Kodachrome Photos of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

The Greatest Show on Earth! Kodachrome Photos of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

CW Cushman loved travelling and most years would take photographs of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the so-called Greatest Show on Earth. ...
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Strange Views of Switzerland and The Swiss

Strange Views of Switzerland and The Swiss

Didier Ruef's photographs show us a Switzerland away from clocks, skiiing lawyers and gnomes ...
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The ‘Last Hurrah of the Upper Classes’ – Photographs by Dafydd Jones

The ‘Last Hurrah of the Upper Classes’ – Photographs by Dafydd Jones

"It was Thatcher’s Britain, a period of celebration for those that had money," ...
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The Revised Boy Scout Manual : How to Fight A Revolution (1970)

The Revised Boy Scout Manual : How to Fight A Revolution (1970)

William S. Burroughs’ 1970 manifesto for overthrowing a corrupt government, aka The Revised Boy Scouts Manual ...
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How Vinyl Records And Music Tapes Are Made (1954)

How Vinyl Records And Music Tapes Are Made (1954)

This is how vinyl records was made in 1954 at the AMPEX factory in San Carlos, California ...
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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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