Before Paris sped up, Eugène Atget walked it slowly. With a wooden camera and endless patience, he recorded shop windows, empty streets, and everyday lives that modernity was about to erase. A quiet archive of a city in transition.

Roy Sullivan survived seven recorded lightning strikes, more than anyone in history, only to die alone after years of being shunned by people who feared he attracted storms.

I'm a little late to the party but I'm a big fan of Jessica Harrison 's take on the traditional porcelain doll. We all remember them. Maybe perched on your nan’s mantlepiece, or lined up behind the glass in your local charity shop, those prim little porcelain ladies, frozen mid-curtsy, eternally rosy-cheeked and sweet as sugar. Innocuous. Old-fashioned. Harmless. Until artist Jessica Harrison gets hold of them. In her series Broken , Harrison takes these mass-produced figurin