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Alex Bartsch’s Vinyl Sleeve Photography Project Captures London’s Musical Past
This series reunites vintage album covers with the locations where their original photos were taken. Photographed by Alex Bartsch , the...


Velma Barfield: America’s First Woman Executed by Lethal Injection
In 1969, a North Carolina home went up in flames. Inside, Thomas Burke, husband to Velma Barfield, was found dead. At first, no one...


Operation Paperclip: America’s Harvest of Nazi Science
In the sweltering summer of 1945, as the embers of World War II cooled and the ruins of Europe still smouldered, a quiet convoy wound its way into the heart of the United States. On board were not defeated soldiers or displaced refugees, but German scientists (some of them former Nazis) who would soon be tasked with building America’s future. It wasn’t a coincidence. It was Operation Paperclip: a covert US intelligence programme that recruited over 1,600 scientists, engineers
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