This post was originally published on this siteSo said writer and journalist Janet Flanner, when she explained her decision to move to Paris in 1922 […]
This post was originally published on this siteA burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or […]
This post was originally published on this siteConstruction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge began with the groundbreaking ceremony on July 9, 1933. Discussion of […]
This post was originally published on this siteBefore the First World War, postcards served as very important memorabilia. They were used to share personal news, […]
This post was originally published on this siteThroughout the 250-year history of slavery in North America, enslaved people tried to escape. Once newspapers were common, […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe River Thames bursting its banks, rail lines being washed away, villages being turned into islands and soldiers […]
This post was originally published on this siteSome 156,000 Allied troops landed on five Normandy beaches during the operation on June 6, 1944, which would […]
This post was originally published on this siteDuring a House of Commons sitting in February 1915, the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, replying to a question […]
This post was originally published on this sitePhotographer Lewis Wickes Hine once said: “There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe last public execution by guillotine was not as long ago as you may think. It actually took […]
This post was originally published on this siteChristine Keeler (1942–2017, Orpington, Kent) was an English model who, as one of the central figures in the […]
This post was originally published on this siteOnly in 1935-36 in Europe were closed the last cells with blacks in zoos – in Basle and […]
This post was originally published on this siteRemarkable images of the steamship Princess May, resting at a seemingly impossible angle, after running aground on rocks […]
This post was originally published on this site“There are many pictures of Lincoln; there is no portrait of him.” — John George Nicolay, Secretary to […]
This post was originally published on this siteMorrison shelters were a way of protecting people from in their own homes from falling bombs. This was […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe original World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City, […]
This post was originally published on this siteBorn in 1749, New Englander Conrad Heyer was a veteran of the American Revolution. He was there in […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe daguerreotype, invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1837, was the first commercially successful photographic process and was popular […]
This post was originally published on this siteThirty years after Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Francis Grose put out […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe motor car may have been invented by German engineers, but it took two Brits to refine the […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe greatest stunt that Tom Mix (1880-1940) ever did, and the most famous Beale’s Cut stunt, was jump […]
This post was originally published on this siteDuring their trip to the U.K in early 1964, The Ronettes were introduced to The Beatles, and spent […]
This post was originally published on this siteMadame Tussaud was born in Strasburg late in 1761. Her father was a German soldier named Grosholtz, who […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese rare photos show some of the world’s most infamous monsters just moments after their reign of terror […]
This post was originally published on this siteBreathtaking photos showing the agony and ecstasy of the end of the First World War have been brought […]
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