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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Distant Worlds (1932)
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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