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Studio Manassé: Olga Solarics, Adorján von Wlassics and Vienna’s Glamorous Photography Revolution
Imagine strolling into a Viennese salon in the 1920s and finding a world of velvet drapes, bearskin rugs, gilded mirrors and glamorous...
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The Golden Age of the Photo Booth: Capturing Moments Between the 1920s and 1950s
Tucked into the corners of busy train stations, bustling department stores, and lively seaside piers, photo booths once offered a little...
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Van Morrison in Cambridge: The Forgotten Summer of Astral Weeks
Of all the ways to start your career in music, having a future legend turn up at your parents’ doorstep isn’t the usual path. But that’s...
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Diane Arbus: The Photographer Who Found Beauty Everywhere
Diane Arbus had a way of seeing people that most others overlooked. Through her lens, the outsiders and the unusual figures of New York...
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Belles Lettres: The Naked Alphabet (1971) A Blend of Typography and Art
In the ever-evolving landscape of visual communication, few projects have captured the playful spirit of rebellion quite like Belles...
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The Obsession of Oskar Kokoschka: Alma Mahler, Love Letters, and the Life-Size Doll
When Oskar Kokoschka fell for Alma Mahler, he didn’t just fall, he practically unravelled. The young Viennese artist’s passion for the...
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A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Daring DIY Stunts–and Keaton’s 5 Rules of Comic Storytelling
Long before CGI explosions and green screens, Buster Keaton was flinging himself off buildings, leaping onto moving trains, and surviving...
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Bad Luck, Starvation and Cannibalism. The Story Of The Donner Party And Their Doomed Journey.
James and Margret Reed “Are you men from California, or do you come from Heaven?” These were the stunned words of an emaciated Mrs...
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The Remarkable and Slightly Bonkers Saga of Jackie Chan’s Parents: Charles and Lee-Lee Chan
Before Jackie Chan jumped off buildings for a living, his parents dodged bullets, smuggled linen, flirted with espionage, and argued over...
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The Night Witches: How Soviet Women in Wooden Biplanes Became a Nightmare For The Nazis
In the frozen darkness above the Eastern Front during the Second World War, German soldiers faced many fears. But one of the most...
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Hal Blaine: Possibly The Most Recorded Musician In History
Before stadium tours, before MTV, and long before digital sampling made it possible to fake a perfect drumbeat, one man played the real...
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Ten Million Years of Evolution Mapped in a Five-Foot Infographic from 1931
Imagine scrolling through a world without the internet, no Google search, no YouTube explainers, and certainly no AI assistants. In this...
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Romulus and Remus: Rome’s Mythic Brothers and the Birth of an Empire
Discover the legendary tale of Romulus and Remus, the twin brothers who founded Rome in 753 BCE. Explore their mythic lineage, divine...
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Destino: When Salvador Dalí Met Walt Disney and the World Got Weird (Eventually)
It sounds like the setup for a surrealist joke: Salvador Dalí walks into a party and meets Walt Disney. But what happened next wasn’t a...
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Surviving 1660s London: Fire, Plague, Crime and the Curious Pleasures of a City on the Edge
Explore 1660s London—where plague, fire, and crime ruled, yet theatre, coffeehouses, and music thrived. A vivid journey into a decade of danger and delight.
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The Radicalisation of Timothy McVeigh: From Ruby Ridge To Oklahoma Via Waco
On the morning of 19 April 1995, a yellow Ryder rental truck pulled up outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City....
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The Pagan History of Easter: From Ēostre to the Easter Bunny
While some today mark the resurrection of Christ during Easter, many more partake in egg hunts, chocolate bunnies, and toasted hot cross...
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“Germany Calling, Germany Calling”: The Rise and Fall of Lord Haw-Haw
It’s hard to imagine a time when the voice of a Nazi sympathiser could reach six million British radios in wartime Britain, but for a...
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The Wild, Wandering Life of Peter Beard: Half Tiger, Half Byron
When Peter Beard went missing from his Montauk home in March 2020, the disappearance felt oddly poetic. A man who had survived being...
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The Brothers Who Robbed, Charmed, and Were Hanged: The Brief Outlaw Lives of John and Charles Ruggles
In the rugged hills of Northern California in the late 19th century, two brothers thought they had found an easy way to make a living....
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The Forgotten Heroes: Indian Soldiers of World War One
"The shells are pouring like rain in the monsoon." That single line, taken from a letter written by an Indian soldier stationed on the...
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Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme: The Friendship That Led to Murder
The world of crime has seen its fair share of chilling partnerships, but few are as infamous as the one shared by Pauline Parker and...
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Letizia Battaglia: Documenting the Sicilian Mafia Through the Lens of Daily Life
In the mid-1970s, a woman in her early forties began taking photographs for L’Ora , a small but politically active newspaper based in...
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1895: Photographers Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Private Collection
History is full of unsung heroes who have challenged societal norms and paved the way for progress. Among them are Marie Høeg and Bolette...
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