Post-war Britain was a curiously unsettled place as the fruits of victory rapidly turned sour. As the war battered economy struggled to rebu...

Most English illustrators of the Twentieth Century are better documented than Ronald Lampitt. Bear Alley blog has a brief biographical not...

Fredric March was at the height of his fame as a Hollywood star in 1936 when this linen postcard was published showing his home in the Los A...

Fair play to the man from Dallas who, unafraid to under-estimate the intelligence of the public, set about inducing the readership of Esquir...

Advertisers’ wisdom had it that brevity was all when it came to naming a product. A single syllable, easily remembered, would lend itself to...

Place de Clichy is a place of lasting fascination to map fanatics as one of the few locations in Paris where four arrondissements meet at a...

The north-west fringe of Bristol is the type of place that J G Ballard might have invented. It includes the vast and depressing acreage of C...