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The 1959 Hitchhiking Trip George Harrison Took With Paul McCartney To Wales (photos by Paul)
In August 1959, a teenage George Harrison and Paul McCartney took an impromptu hitchhiking trip to Wales, captured by Paul’s own camera. This rare journey shows the friendship and wanderlust before Beatlemania.


Paris in Colour 1909-1937: Captured Using The Autochrome Lumière Process
Albert Kahn envisioned his Les Archives de la Planète (Archives of the Planet) as a comprehensive snapshot of the world, aiming to immortalise all aspects, practices, and methods of human activities destined for inevitable disappearance. Commencing in 1909 and concluding in 1937, the Frenchman deployed photographers worldwide, armed with the revolutionary Autochrome Lumiere – the inaugural true colour photographic process developed by the Lumière brothers in 1903. With over


The (Possibly) Unsolved 1986 Assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
On the evening of 28th February 1986, Sweden’s prime minister Olof Palme and his wife, Lisbet, were making their way home through central Stockholm. They had just been to the cinema, an impromptu outing, and, as they often did, they had decided against bringing bodyguards. Palme prided himself on living as close to an ordinary life as possible. He didn’t want his role as leader of the country to create a barrier between him and the people. “You saw him in the streets all the
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