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Paradise Lost: The Story of a Group of Europeans who Tried to Find Utopia on a Remote Galápagos Island in the 1930s
In 1929, long before the Galapagos Islands became synonymous with eco-tourism, conservation cruises, and Instagrammable marine iguanas,...


Arthur Barry: The Gentleman Thief Who Dazzled the Jazz Age and Robbed Its Richest with a Smile
If you ever find yourself romanticising the glitzy outlaws of the 1920s, spare a thought for Arthur Barry, a polite burglar whose life...


Before Sat Nav: The Wristlet and the Iter Avto, Our Quirky Ancestors of GPS from the 1920s
Long before we had celebrity voices telling us when to take the next left or warning us about average speed cameras, drivers had to rely...
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