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“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

A ‘centre of gaiety’ as one 1930s guide book put it, where thousands and thousands of people and almost as many cars ‘struggle in vain for freedom’. ...
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‘I shall meet thee bravely’: Beethoven finds a reason to live at a moment of desperation

‘I shall meet thee bravely’: Beethoven finds a reason to live at a moment of desperation

When things are bad, and the problems of life seem almost insurmountable, I think of Beethoven, the great composer who was a mere twenty-eight when he started going deaf... ...
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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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Hackney 1971-1981 – Before the Money Moved In

Hackney 1971-1981 – Before the Money Moved In

In the 1970s and 1980s Neil Martinson was photographing the largely beard-free Hackney with his Zenith-E camera ...
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The Books from U.N.C.L.E. or What I Learned About Spies from TV and Toys

The Books from U.N.C.L.E. or What I Learned About Spies from TV and Toys

My brief career as a secret agent began after I'd graduated from Thunderbirds and started watching The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on television. I was four or there abouts. Spies, it seemed to me, were smart, sassy, assiduous in their work, and impeccably dressed. ...
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Lockheed’s Hilarious Anti-Drugs Shorts (1969)

Lockheed’s Hilarious Anti-Drugs Shorts (1969)

"I turned a corner and walked right into a wall..." ...
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After Chernobyl : The Nuclear Suicide Squad (1986)

After Chernobyl : The Nuclear Suicide Squad (1986)

In 1986 Professor Sir Frederick Warner created Volunteers for Ionising Radiation, a platoon of over-65s who would help in a British nuclear disaster ...
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Emma Kunz: The Divine Pendulum Drawings

Emma Kunz: The Divine Pendulum Drawings

Emma was a Swiss telepathic healer, researcher and artist "gifted" with prophetic powers. Her magical work predates the Spyrograph ...
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The Day They Nuked Mississippi (1964)

The Day They Nuked Mississippi (1964)

“We all got up and got dressed up, and they told us to go to Caney Church,” says Dorothy Breshears, who was 13 at the time. “When we got there, everybody we knew was there.” ...
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Protect And Survive: How To Survive Nuclear Armageddon (1980)

Protect And Survive: How To Survive Nuclear Armageddon (1980)

This booklet issued by the British Government in 1980 tells you how to make your home and your family as safe as possible under nuclear attack ...
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Eerie Cold War Nuclear Testing Photos from the Height of the Atomic Age

Eerie Cold War Nuclear Testing Photos from the Height of the Atomic Age

Less than a month before the horrific bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, a smaller, secret detonation took place in the New Mexico desert, 230 miles south of Los Alamos in a valley called the Jornada del Muerto (“Journey of the Dead Man”). ...
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The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

Werner Heisenberg and his team were tasked with building a nuclear weapon for Nazi Germany. In ...
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