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Robert Workman takes us back to 'seedy' Soho in the 1970s, We look at the clubs and shops that pulled in the punters

Highlights from Douglas Corrance's book of fabulous colour pictures he took in the 1970s of Scottish Rural Post Offices.

Funk began her preparations for space flight in 1961 as part of group of 13 women pilots called FLATS (First Lady Astronaut Trainees).

On February 28, 1989, a teacher working at an elementary school in a small village near Fukushima spotted a foot in her toilet

Sergei Eisenstein (10 January 1898 – 11 February 1948) is best known for his films, including Strike (1925), the surreal and savage October (1928), Ivan the Terrible (1944) and his stunning paean to revolution Battleship Potemkin (1925).he also left behind a cache of his erotic art. Eisenstein was gay and bursting to get out … Continue reading "Sergei Eisenstein’s Erotic Drawings (NSFW)"

These pictures were part of the exhibition Nothing to lose: The punk photographs of Caroline Coon at The Centre for British Photography

To promote their first major exhibition, members of Germany's Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards.

To promote their first major exhibition, members of Germany's Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards.

At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s Commissar of Enlightenment, Anatolii Lunacharskii, would send overseas to show the … Continue reading "El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928"

These images are from Sein Kampf (His Struggle), a 1944 collection of cartoons by Stanisław Dobrzyński (1897 to 1949).

Life in an English Village, published by King Penguin Books in 1949, was illustrated with 16 watercolour plates by Edward Bawden

Highlights from the thousands of lost photos of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin taken by his platoon of photographers

Nameneko was 1980s fad for dressing cats and kittens up as tough guys and girls and having them pose for photos

Nameneko was 1980s fad for dressing cats and kitters up as tough guys and girls and having them pose for photos

In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a allegory of the state of the British … Continue reading "Cars of Britain in the 1970s"

Moving from spectacular buildings to cinematic spectacle, Chesley Bonestell went to work painting backgrounds in Hollywood

In 1965, cool kids got their hands on a special issue of Forrest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. This issue featured pioneering make-up artist Dick Smith’s Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up Handbook.