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The Beast of Birkenshaw: The Brutal Crimes of Scottish Serial Killer Peter Manuel

The Beast of Birkenshaw: The Brutal Crimes of Scottish Serial Killer Peter Manuel

Picture the scene: New Year's Day, 1958, a killer sits at a breakfast table eating ...
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1970s Sexploitation Tag Lines: Innuendo and Bad Puns Run Amok

1970s Sexploitation Tag Lines: Innuendo and Bad Puns Run Amok

“Don’t bother to ask… the answer is YES!... they NEVER say no!” Well, I was ...
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Visions of Old Kathmandu – What Was Lost (1976)

Visions of Old Kathmandu – What Was Lost (1976)

Kevin Kelly took these photographs of Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1976. As you can see from ...
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The Toy Adventure is Only Beginning:  The Seven Coolest Toy Spaceships of the 1970s

The Toy Adventure is Only Beginning: The Seven Coolest Toy Spaceships of the 1970s

The disco decade was the great era of toy spaceships. This great development for kids ...
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John Lennon’s Reply To The Royal Albert Hall’s Wonderful Letter Of Complaint (1967)

John Lennon’s Reply To The Royal Albert Hall’s Wonderful Letter Of Complaint (1967)

  In 1967, bigwigs at London's Royal Albert Hall wrote to the Beatles. The venue was upset at ...
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1956: Audrey Hepburn And Husband Mel Ferrer On A Windy County Road Outside Paris

1956: Audrey Hepburn And Husband Mel Ferrer On A Windy County Road Outside Paris

  In 1952, Audrey Hepburn called off her engagement to James Hanson, saying "When I get married, ...
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Cor!: The vintage Comic Capers of Benny Hill

Cor!: The vintage Comic Capers of Benny Hill

Benny Hill was funny. Benny Hill was often exceedingly funny. At best: his comedy was ...
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Photographs of 19th-Century Sexologist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing

Photographs of 19th-Century Sexologist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing

Psychopathia Sexualis was intended as "a medico-forensic study." Krafft-Ebing presented the case histories' most sordid details in Latin "in order to exclude the lay reader." ...
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Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin 

Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin 

  The end of World War II heralded a time of peace for much of ...
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In British Politics Football Is A Game of Own-Goals

In British Politics Football Is A Game of Own-Goals

Political football is a game of own-goals     David Cameron is the latest (but ...
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Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

When it comes to phallic imagery, it doesn't get much more blatant than the image ...
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Photos Of Censor Reverend Vernon Mitchell’s 1960 Tour Of Soho Strip Clubs

Photos Of Censor Reverend Vernon Mitchell’s 1960 Tour Of Soho Strip Clubs

London's Soho is synonymous with the business ends of sex. It's seedy and seductive, if ...
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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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