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The Beatles decided to use this photograph for their Yesterday and Today album cover. The four normally squeaky clean Beatles had dressed...

History has taught us that the combination of a thirst for knowledge and personal sacrifice is the most powerful force behind some of the...

In 1946, the Surrealist artist created a short film with Walt Disney that didn’t see the light of day for 58 years It’s difficult to...

Baby Soft was born in 1974. The company that brought it to market, Menley & James, an imprint of the pharmaceutical bigwig Smith & Kline,...

Video essayist Kogonada previously made some brilliant observations about the visual obsessions of some of cinema’s greatest formalists....

Near the small town of Mudurnu in Turkey's northwest region sits Burj Al Babas, a ghost town of Disney-like castles. The more than 500...

Angular, symmetrical and intricately designed, Wes Anderson films are known for their exquisite aesthetics and predilection for panache....

Czech photographer Jacques Biederer began his Parisian career in 1913 with G-rated portraiture but soon moved on to more prurient subject...

“It’s the obsessive and dangerous end of granny-core. Fetishistic and deranged.” —Nick Cave describing his newly launched Cave Things...

When Brigitte Bardot met Pablo Picasso in 1956, she was 21 and he was 74. Picasso had a long and successful career as an artist behind...

The booming actor Brian Blessed has a flair for a story. Asked by a newspaper if he ever made a financial mistake, he revealed that when...

From its earliest known resident in 1470, Plas Newydd has changed through various shapes and sizes and has been passed by inheritance and...

Michael Caine in the 1960s was a force to be reckoned with. A poster boy for British cool and the swinging sixties, he was a new genre of...

Photographer Angélica Dass’ Humanae project is cataloguing every human skin tone to reveal the complexity of colour and race. When...

Few talents dominated Victorian England like William Morris (1834 -1896). Known primarily today as a designer and creator of wall...

Who doesn't love a William Morris print, his life, his work and his legacy. There’s so much behind his work; from his inspirations and...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art contains many marvels of history and art. The Adeline Harris Sears Tumbling Block with Signatures quilt...

It's Christmas 1880, what do you get the child that has everything? How about nightmares delivered via an automated monkey pastry-chef...

Back in the 19th century, some books were bound in a particular type of leather. Human skin, sourced from unfortunate and unwilling souls...

In 1903, local Romanian politicians agreed that it was time for the city of Constanța to have a modern casino, "...like those which...

Built in 1882, this superb building was originally a house with about twenty windows and a carriage entrance. Around 1920, this house was...

Maps, by their very nature, are big fat liars. Despite what the Flat-Earthers would have you believe, the world is indeed spherical,...

The car was commissioned by business baron Clarence Gasque for his wife Maude, a devotee of 18th-century French design, and it remains...

The "Orient Express" was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The...