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Top Ten Unlikely and Surprising Eugenicists
Before the Second World War, eugenics or as the Oxford Dictionary puts it: ‘the science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable...
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Cigarette Cards Celebrating The Coronation of HM King George & HM Queen...
My grandparents smoked–and they must have smoked a hell of a lot to collect the full set of cards issued by Player’s cigarettes to celebrate the coronation of HM King George and HM Queen Elizabeth in...
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The Real Wild Bill Hickok versus Hollywood
Wild Bill Hickok Wild Bill Hickok young and old Born in Illinois in 1837, James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok was a genuine adventurer whose legend, as befits a proper Western hero, became more than...
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Pictures and Films of Berwick Street Market in London’s Soho
Berwick Street Market in Soho in June 1966. (Richard Friedman) In 1937 the Manchester Guardian complained that London’s open-air markets, including Berwick Street market, had lost some of their...
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A Dandy in Aspic Exclusive : Never Before Published Interview with Cult...
London summer 1984: I was in love but it wouldn’t last. I was in love with an Iranian woman who was the daughter of a man who had once been two-i-c (or something similarly high-up) to the Shah of...
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Blink: The Eyeball-Licking Horror of Suehiro Maruo and Strange Other...
“The world is a freakshow for my peeping eye’s delight” – Suehiro Maruo, Ultra-Gash Inferno A soldier sticks his tongue in a young girl’s eye. His hand opens her face like a ripe fruit or a swollen...
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The End of Days: Albrecht Dürer’s Woodcuts for ‘The Apocalypse’– 1498
Woman of the Apocalypse. It was the End of Days, or so it seemed. 1494, the artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) travelled to Italy where he remained until the spring of 1495. He moved south to avoid the...
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‘The Rake’s Progress’ and William Hogarth’s Six Points Essential to Good Art
‘Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse’ (1757). Brit Art didn’t start in the 1990s with Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and all that. It really began in the 1700s with William Hogarth, who was the Daddy of them...
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