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On the 4th of December 1969 police stormed the Chicago apartment of 21 year old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Officials called it a shootout. Evidence later showed it was a planned killing, aided by an informant and shaped by FBI COINTELPRO. His legacy has shaped activism ever since.

A detailed look at photographer Michael Kay’s striking images of Manchester in the early 1970s, capturing slum clearances, Moss Side’s transformation, pub culture, everyday resilience, and the city’s journey through poverty and regeneration.

Dr Eugene Lazowski became known as the man who tricked the German occupation authorities with a fake typhus epidemic. The story became wildly exaggerated in later decades, yet the truth is still remarkable. This detailed account looks at what he actually did, who he really saved, and how the legend grew.

In late nineteen sixty five the Beatles were famous enough to sell any record they liked, yet worried enough about their future to reinvent what an album could be. Rubber Soul was their response. Born from a throwaway remark about “plastic soul,” it fused folk, soul and pop, turned the studio into a playground, and quietly rewrote the rules of rock music.

On 8 December 1980 a cold Monday that began like any other ended in global shock. John Lennon spent the day posing for Annie Leibovitz, giving an optimistic radio interview and working on Walking On Thin Ice before returning home to the Dakota, where Mark David Chapman shot him. The loss rippled across the world, culminating in one of the largest public vigils New York had ever seen.