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You’re the Top! The Connection Between Socialite Mrs Sweeny, PG Wodehouse and Mussolini

You’re the Top! The Connection Between Socialite Mrs Sweeny, PG Wodehouse and Mussolini

Margaret used to see one man for dinner, plead tiredness and go home, only then to go out with another young man to the Embassy Club or the Café de Paris. At closing hour she and her partner would then ‘float on’ to late nightclubs such as Kate Meyrick’s Silver Slipper. Her father’s only rule was that she absolutely must be dressed for the family breakfast at nine. ...
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Koen Wessing: The Indelible Image of Post-War Conflict

Koen Wessing: The Indelible Image of Post-War Conflict

'You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on' - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable ...
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“God Forever, The Beatles Never” – When Lennon Compared the Beatles to Jesus in 1966

“God Forever, The Beatles Never” – When Lennon Compared the Beatles to Jesus in 1966

My life with the Beatles had become a trap. I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus. ...
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Arlington Gregg For The Federal Project Number One (1936 – 1939)

Arlington Gregg For The Federal Project Number One (1936 – 1939)

Part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal was the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which in 1935 created the Federal Project Number One to help artists, actors, writers, and musicians get work. ...
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Elizabeth Cobbold’s Papercut Invitations to her Annual St Valentine’s Day Ball – 18th Century

Elizabeth Cobbold’s Papercut Invitations to her Annual St Valentine’s Day Ball – 18th Century

'Eliza to William this Valentine sends / While ev'ry good wish on the present attends / And freely she writes undisturb'd by a fear / Tho' prudes may look scornful, and, libertines sneer' - Elizabeth Cobbold to her new husband ...
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How Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Japanese Prints Inspired His ‘Art of the Future’

How Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Japanese Prints Inspired His ‘Art of the Future’

"All my work is based to some extent on Japanese art" - Van Gogh ...
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The Paratrooper’s Selfies : Snapshots Whilst Falling to Earth in 1944

The Paratrooper’s Selfies : Snapshots Whilst Falling to Earth in 1944

In 1944, Picture Post photographer Haywood Magee boarded an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber at RAF Ringway, Cheshire, England. Already onboard were men of the 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment. As one paratrooper prepared to jump, Magee handed him a camera with the instructions to aim it at his face, don’t drop the thing, and click. ...
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Great Photos of the Liverpool School Strike of 1985

Great Photos of the Liverpool School Strike of 1985

"There were speeches back at the pier head but I can't remember a single one of them. I was just filled with the feeling that being on strike was far better than being in school" ...
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Jah Wobble Talks Bohemian Chelsea, Aswad, Hawkwind, Punk and Sid Vicious

Jah Wobble Talks Bohemian Chelsea, Aswad, Hawkwind, Punk and Sid Vicious

This is nice; pal and fellow Chelsea Arts Club member John Wardle talks about the importance of the immediate neighbourhood, its artistic tradition going back to the likes of Whistler, the licentiousness of the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens in Victorian times, the Bohemian atmosphere engendered by the 70s slums around the Lots Road Power Station and how all of this combined to create the breeding ground for punk. ...
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Watergate Courtroom Sketches by Freda L. Reiter: Drawing Nixon and The President’s Men 1973–75

Watergate Courtroom Sketches by Freda L. Reiter: Drawing Nixon and The President’s Men 1973–75

"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue” - Richard Nixon ...
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The Beatles At Abbey Road On September 12 1963 – Norman Parkinson’s Early Fab Four Photographs

The Beatles At Abbey Road On September 12 1963 – Norman Parkinson’s Early Fab Four Photographs

"I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better" - Norman Parkinson ...
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Bruce Davidson Photographs At The Telfair Museums

Bruce Davidson Photographs At The Telfair Museums

"If I am looking for a story at all, it is in my relationship to the subject - the story that tells me, rather than that I tell" - Bruce Davidson ...
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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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