Ruthie the Duck Girl wasn’t just a local character, she was part of New Orleans itself. Roller skating through the French Quarter with ducks, a beer, and a cigarette, she lived entirely on her own terms. This is the story of a woman the city never forgot.

Discover the life of Thamara de Swirsky, the Russian born barefoot dancer who captivated audiences in the 1910s with her unique performances, opera appearances, and early film work.

Mandy Smith was 13 when she met Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. Their relationship became one of Britain’s most controversial stories, ending in a short lived marriage and years of reflection. A closer look at what really happened.

In April 1994, Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home. This detailed account traces his final days, from the Rome overdose to his disappearance and the events leading to his death.

Janis Joplin recorded “Mercedes Benz” in a single take on 1st October 1970. Three days later, she was gone. What sounds like a simple request for a luxury car is actually a sharp reflection of a changing era and the limits of material success.

In 1958, 14 year old Cheryl Crane stabbed Johnny Stompanato during a violent argument with her mother, Lana Turner. The case was ruled self defence, but questions about what really happened have never fully gone away.

On 4th of May, 1865, the United States believed it had completed one of the most solemn duties in its history. After weeks of lying in state, a funeral train that crossed the country, and public viewings in twelve cities, Abraham Lincoln was placed inside a receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery, close to the town he had once called home. The arrangement was meant to be temporary. The Lincoln Tomb was still under construction, and the vault was simply a holding place until the

Johnny Cash built his outlaw image through songs like Folsom Prison Blues, but his real connection to prisons came from decades of performances, conversations with inmates, and advocacy for reform.

A look at Arthur Kales and the pictorialist movement that reshaped photography into an art form using soft focus, composition, and painterly techniques.

A look at 1920s French nude photography, from mass produced postcards to higher quality studio prints. This collection shows how these images moved between art and commerce, and what they reveal about photography and visual culture in early twentieth century France.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth lived loudly in a quiet era. From White House mischief to decades of political influence, she remained sharp, funny, and impossible to ignore well into old age.

On the evening of 23rd March, 1931, three young men walked towards the gallows in Lahore Central Jail. Witnesses later recalled that they did not resist, did not plead, and did not falter. One of them, Bhagat Singh, reportedly called out “Inquilab Zindabad” – “Long live the revolution” – as the noose was placed around his neck. He was 23 years old. It is easy, with hindsight, to reduce Bhagat Singh to a symbol. In India today, his name appears on posters, statues, and school

A mid nineteenth century Japanese scroll known as He gassen shows groups locked in exaggerated “fart battles”. Often dismissed as crude humour, some believe it carried subtle satire about society and change in Edo period Japan.

Brassaï wandered Paris after dark, capturing lovers, fog-filled streets, and the city’s hidden nightlife. His 1933 book Paris by Night reshaped photography, while Secret Paris revealed a world unseen for decades. A quiet, intimate portrait of a different Paris.

On 16th March, 1988 loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone attacked an IRA funeral at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast with grenades and gunfire. Three people were killed and dozens injured as mourners chased Stone through the cemetery in one of the most chaotic moments of the Troubles.

A rare 1926 photograph album documents a road trip from Los Angeles to Death Valley. The 76 images and diary entries capture automobiles, abandoned mines, homesteads and desert landscapes. Preserved in the University of California archives.

The story of IRA volunteers Dolours and Marian Price, their role in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing in London, the hunger strike that followed and their controversial lives after the Troubles.

In 1925 Eve Adams opened a small tearoom in Greenwich Village where lesbian women could gather openly. She also wrote one of the earliest books about lesbian life in America. Within a year she was arrested and deported. In 1943 she was murdered in Auschwitz.

For nearly 30 years after World War II ended, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda continued fighting in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines. Convinced the war had not ended, he finally surrendered in March 1974 after receiving a direct order from his former commander.

Before making Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone spent months watching classic Westerns and rebuilding the genre from memory. The result was a slow, mythic film about the end of the frontier. Here is the remarkable story behind its making.

The disturbing true story of the Lonely Hearts Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck who used newspaper personal ads to lure victims before embarking on a deadly crime spree across America in the late 1940s.

In 1953, Bettie Page posed for a magazine article explaining the confusing striptease laws across different US states. Photographed by Nick de Morgoli, the feature served as a surprisingly practical guide for travelling burlesque performers.

On 5 March 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead in a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont. In the hours before his death, Robert De Niro and Robin Williams had both briefly visited. The story of one of Hollywood's most tragic nights.