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Paris 1914: colour photographs

Paris 1914: colour photographs

THESE colour photographs of Paris in 1914 are from the Albert Kahn Museum, based at Kahn's former ...
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The Anthology album of Rolling Stones secret songs

The Anthology album of Rolling Stones secret songs

No Stone Unturned As the Rolling Stones begin their 50th Anniversary with a tour, TV ...
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Lord Fisher uses first example of ‘OMG’ in letter to Winston Churchill

Lord Fisher uses first example of ‘OMG’ in letter to Winston Churchill

IT'S 1917 and Winston Churchill receives a letter from Lord Fisher. It contains the earliest ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

How the Hit Parade moved from phonograph needles, platters and sleaze to MP3s

SIXTY years ago, the first British singles chart – or “Hit Parade” as it was ...
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When Hercules the bear was Scotland’s Number 1 star

When Hercules the bear was Scotland’s Number 1 star

HERCULES was born in a captivity near Aviemore in 1974. Wrestler Andy Robin paid £50 ...
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1965: A film on London’s members’ only clubs

1965: A film on London’s members’ only clubs

IT'S 1965, and the Rank Organisation has produced a film called Look at Life - ...
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Sexism watch: Daredevil slips into ‘something barely legal’

Sexism watch: Daredevil slips into ‘something barely legal’

EVERYDAY sexism looks at this still from a Daredevil comic book. Norman Saunders thought it tame. (more…)
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The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s

The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s

WERE you around in the 1970s? Did you keep fit with the latest kit? We've ...
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1949: the walls of Hitler’s ruined alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden

1949: the walls of Hitler’s ruined alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden

FLASHBACK: The walls of Hitler's ruined alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden, Germany are covered with the ...
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1985: House spiders on drugs

1985: House spiders on drugs

FLASHBACK to 27/04/1995: EXPERIMENTS BY NASA SCIENTISTS HAVE SHOWN THAT COMMON HOUSE SPIDERS SPIN THEIR WEBS IN ...
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World Cup Willie – a life in photos

World Cup Willie – a life in photos

WORLD Cup Willie was the original football mascot. Willie, the first Word Cup mascot, was the ...
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Parturition chairs made child birth more comfortable

Parturition chairs made child birth more comfortable

PARTURITION chairs were used by women when they were giving birth. Is sitting down more ...
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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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