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In the heart of San Francisco, where activism and counterculture have long thrived, an elderly woman in polyester pantsuits became one of...

The debate surrounding gun control continues to be one of the most contentious and polarising issues in the United States. Today, the...

Photography is often described as a way to freeze time, but for James Van Der Zee, it was much more than that. His images didn’t just...

There are eccentrics, and then there is Dame Edith Sitwell—an aristocratic poet, critic, and all-around formidable presence in...

Royal families have long been known for carefully controlling their public image, often keeping anything deemed unseemly out of sight....

In the dimly lit corridors of the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine, a peculiar relic sits preserved in a glass jar—a severed...

The Mitford sisters were an aristocratic anomaly: six daughters of Lord and Lady Redesdale ( Farve  and Muv  to their children), raised...

Watched by widowed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, JFK's casket is carried aboard Air Force One for its flight from Dallas to Washington...

It’s June 26, 1978, and a film crew is preparing for the first night of what will be a gruelling two-month shoot. They aren’t on a...

For more than four decades, the man who came to be known as the Golden State Killer terrorised communities across California, committing...

In the turbulent 1960s, Oakland became the backdrop for one of the most significant political movements of the era. Huey P. Newton was at...

Loewenstein on board a ship for a party. (right) boarding the plane he would disappear from On the evening of 4 July 1928, Alfred...

In 1924, Richard Connell’s short story The Most Dangerous Game  introduced the idea of human beings being hunted for sport. The tale...

Few films have had as enduring an impact on horror cinema as The Texas ChainSaw Massacre  (1974). Directed and co-written by Tobe Hooper,...

On the morning of 11 May 2012, a fire tore through a house at 18 Victory Road in Osmaston, Derby, claiming the lives of six children. In...

Valentine’s Day is usually a time for sweet nothings, heart-shaped confections, and declarations of undying love. But if you think the...

On 7 April 1926, a slight, grey-haired Irishwoman in a black shawl fired a revolver at Benito Mussolini, the strutting, bare-chested...

Jacques Mesrine wasn’t just any criminal—he was a one-man crime wave, a walking, talking, bank-robbing spectacle who made law enforcement...

Emma Goldman was one of history’s most fearless voices for personal and political freedom. An anarchist, writer, and feminist, she campaigned for free speech, birth control, and workers’ rights — and spent her life defying governments that tried to silence her.

In the grand tradition of over-the-top adventurers who defied both death and common sense, few figures stand as tall—literally and...

It is often said that war brings out the best and worst in humanity. But in the case of Corporal Wojtek, it also brought out the best in...

It is an amusing yet historically revealing episode that, in 1940, a young Fidel Castro—yes, that Fidel Castro—decided to write a letter...