The Great Train Robbery, 1963
Late on Thursday 8 August 1963, a Travelling Post Office train left Glasgow for Euston. On board, staff sorted the mail and parcels prior...
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Meet The Forty Elephants, The All-Girl Gang From London
When we think of crime syndicates images of Italian mobsters and Japanese Yakuza members most often come to mind. But, throughout history...
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Rockwell Kent's Illustrations For Moby Dick
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself...
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Nicolas Cage's Pyramid Tomb
ACCLAIMED, DERIDED, AND MEMED ACTOR Nicolas Cage has long been known for his eccentric behaviour both in front of the camera and in the...
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Ormond Gigli And The 'Girls In The Windows'
There is a well-used adage that says there are reasons for everything. This is certainly true for why Ormond Gigli’s photograph, “The...
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Sheriff Buford Pusser; Survivor Of Seven Stabbings And Eight Shootings
Just before dawn on August 12, 1967, McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser got a call about a disturbance on a side road just outside of...
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Robert Clive: The Notorious Asset Stripper Of India
In 2020, there were petitions to remove Clive of India’s statue from outside the Foreign Office in London. Leading historians view Robert...
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Betty Davis, The World Just Wasn't Ready For You.
In 1974, a year before the release of Nasty Gal, the third studio album by funk and fashion trailblazer Betty Davis, the New York Times...
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The Loneliest Photo Ever, By Michael Collins
Michael Collins took this picture of the Lunar Module, containing Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong with Earth in the background, during the...
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The Monk That Lived For 82 Years And Died Without Ever Seeing A Woman.
Mihailo Tolotos, an Orthodox Greek Monk, is said to have lived for 82 years and died, without ever laying eyes on a woman. His story is...
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Why Does ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Keep Getting Banned In The US?
In 2019 a school board’s decision to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from eighth grade curriculums in Biloxi, Mississippi, was the latest in...
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The Guy That Bought Stonehenge But His Wife Hated It So He Gave It Away
Today Stonehenge is one of England's most important monuments, but in 1915 it was up for sale. The man who bought it helped seal its...
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Michael Fagan: The Man That Broke Into The Queen's Bedroom
It was one of the most extraordinary moments of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, and one that is still unbelievable 40 years later. In the...
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The Last Time Pink Floyd Met Syd Barrett
The Syd Barrett that Roger Waters met while studying at Cambridgeshire High School For Boys was a starkly different soul to the one who...
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Famous Musicians When They Were Young
Before rockstars walked the earth, they were little. Here's the proof. Some of these are instantly recognisable, others are hard to spot....
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'Sleep With Donald Trump', The Competition We All Missed in 1990
In August 1990, Playgirl Magazine advertised the chance to “Sleep with Donald Trump” on its cover to its predominantly female audience....
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Etiquette From The 1910s That Early Movie-Goers Had To Follow
During the silent film era, theatres imposed specific rules for movie watchers, displaying them on little cards. They gave several...
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Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Of 1907-1914 France
Art collector Antonin Personnaz took autochrome pictures of France’s Oise Valley between 1907 and 1914. He resembled the work of artists...
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The Man who could Smoke Through His Eyes, Meet Alfred Langevin
Alfred Langevin was the man who could smoke a pipe through his eyes. He lived in Detroit, Michigan, during the 1930s. Langevin appeared...
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The $420m Production That Almost Bankrupted Fox
It had all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: adulterous love affairs, broken marriages, millions of dollars in squandered funds and...
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An Animated Introduction To Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka — he wrote that story about the guy who turns into a bug, and lot of stuff about complex and implacable bureaucracy, right?...
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The Night of the Long Knives, How It Changed The World
The greatest challenge to Hitler's survival during the early years of the Third Reich came from his own brown-shirted storm troopers, the...
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19th Century Daguerreotype Portraits of The Blind
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller...
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Illustrations From Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
“The human race has been marching upward from the first ages of history. Under what law has that mighty procession of the ages taken...
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