20th Century

A collection of 83 Posts

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The Fact of Who I Was

Drawing on the Secret Intelligence Files on Edith Tudor-Hart, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel – by the granddaughter of Kim Philby – tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man

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My Name, if You Must Know, is Adele

Sophie Haydock's electrifying historical debut about four muses and the artist who shocked Vienna

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The Village of the Damned

Matthew Green revisits the Welsh village of Capel Celyn, and how it ended up beneath 68 million tonnes of water

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Out-of-Towners

John Grindrod investigates the rise of the 'Tescobethan Sheds'

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Eavesdropping on the Enemy

Dr Helen Fry on the Man Who Saved MI6 during World War 1

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A Very American Santa Claus

Emily Kern traces the provenance of a modern folk hero

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1963: TWA Flight Center

An iconic, innovative 1960s airport terminal hailed as a critically-acclaimed architectural masterpiece

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Greene County Fair, 1941

Hidden gems from the public archives of America

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A Public Domain Halloween

Hidden gems from the public archives of America

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The [Untitled Photo] Series: Suburbia

Hidden gems from the public archives of America

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Warped Portraits of the 1930s

Weird headshots from the American Federal Theatre Project