I grew up in a household obsessed with Stanley Kubrick films. To romanticise these times, I spent many an hour watching The Shining – my Dad’s particular favourite,…
It’s my wedding anniversary today! To mark the occasion, and my obsession with vintage weddings, today seems an appropriate day to share a collection of vintage wedding photos…
Around Halloween these days, I feel like the outfits and celebrations get more elaborate and competitive, but really I’d much rather see photos like this… There’s something a…
Turns out that even in the Victorian era, humans were obsessed with pictures of cats doing silly things. It also turns out that the forefather of silly cat…
I’ve just been invited to a hen do, and I’m going to suggest the theme is ‘smoker night’ circa 1941. What’s a smoker night I hear you ask?…
When a group of American chiropractors met in Chicago for a weeklong convention in May 1956, they decided to have some fun and throw a beauty contest. Fact!…
Mention Beirut and what do you think of? Urban ruin, war and destruction? After news of the recent tragedy in the capital, I realised I’ve never associated…
Today, we’re discovering a sexy, socially conscious coffee-table book called Vintage Black Glamour, which came out in 2014 (and I only just discovered…) having started life as a…
When the Willard Psychiatric Centre in Upstate New York closed in 1995 in preparation to be turned into a rehabilitation centre, one of its staff unlocked an attic…