The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. ...
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The Birth Of A Legend – Las Vegas Booming In 1955
As photographed by Life Magazine in 1955 Las Vegas was a booming desert town. Driven by gambling, the migration due to high unemployment, and the glitz and glamour ...
Pictures Of The American West 1860-1870
These remarkable pictures show the American West as it was explored for the first time. Taken by photographer Timothy O’Sullivan who worked with a Federal Government team as they explored ...
Remembering D-Day 68 Years Ago
June 6th, the 68th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over ...
Inner-City Dublin In The 1980s
Meet the characters from Dublin’s inner city during the 1980s. Photographer Gerry Smith captured these compelling images in the Irish capital before it found a revitalization in the ...
Colour Pictures Of The Holy Land From 120 Years Ago
These images archived at the Library Of Congress show scenes in 1890-1900 from Israel, Lebanon and Syria, which was at the time controlled by the Ottoman Empire. It was a ...
Bodie – Pictures From A Californian Gold Rush Ghost Town
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast ...
Inside The Original Channel Tunnel 1880
There had been numerous proposals for a tunnel under the channel throughout the 19th Century including one by Napoleon, but the first serious attempt to build a tunnel ...
Shackleton’s Antarctica – Colour Photos From 1915
These are Frank Hurley’s famous early colour photographs of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated ‘Endurance’ voyage, as part of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917. Hurley was the official ...
1930s Childhood – Snapshots From A Time That Health And Safety Forgot
The following series of pictures are taken from a book - When I Were A Lad: Snapshots From A Time That Health And Safety Forgot, by Andrew Davies. Showing ...
The House That Time Forgot – Belgium
The following pictures are from an abandoned mansion in Belgium that has stood empty for over 30 years. It’s not know why the house was originally abandoned, or ...
10 Historical ‘Facts’ That Are Actually Barefaced Lies
If you believe that history and George Washington cannot tell a lie, then you’ll probably be surprised to learn that a number of the “facts” you were taught ...
Before And After D-Day – 1944
The colour pictures below taken by photographer Frank Scherschel show in vivid colour the preparation for the D-Day invasion in June 1944, and the events in France following the ...
Sanna Dullaway – Colorisation Of Historical Images
Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway has an impressive talent for bringing history to life. Using a combination of the original black and white images, and the magic of digital retouching, ...
Amazing Images From Inside The Paris Catacombs
The Paris Catacombs were opened in the late 1700′s as a solution to overcrowding in the Parisian cemeteries. Originally the catacombs were based on a network of old ...
Pictures From The Very First London Marathon – 1981
On 29 March 1981, the first London Marathon was held. Some 20,000 people wanted to run. 7,747 were accepted. There were 6,255 finishers, led home by the American ...
Colour Photographs Of The Interior Of The Hindenburg
The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock ...
Inside A Russian Cold War Bomb Shelter
These are some amazing pictures of behind the pressurised door of a Russian Cold-War bomb shelter. ...
Titanic 100 Year Anniversary Infographic and Image Gallery
On April 14th, 1912, four days into her maiden voyage, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic en route from Southampton to New ...
The Coca-Cola illustrated advertisements are by creative legend Pete Hawley. Hawley created a provocative style for Jantzen advertising in the 1940′s and 1950′s spanning 17 years. He illustrated over 100 magazine ads for swimsuits, lingerie, sweaters and other ...
Movies are for entertainment, not education, but unfortunately, too many audience members believe that the historical movies they’re watching are actually factually correct. Big, big mistake. Call it artistic license, playing fast and loose with the ...
So it looks like the Sixties really were swinging! These pictures from a 1960s student house party look pretty debaucherous, everything you hear about the 60s was apparently true from the looks of these photos. ...
At just before 5am on the 19th August 1942 the Allied forces launched a sea bound attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe on the north coast of France. ‘Operation Rutter’ as it was known ...
Imagine the scene. Men and women are drugged, stripped naked and then dragged aboard aeroplanes, before being pushed out into the ocean and plunging to their deaths in the cold waters of the Atlantic. In an ...
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. From July 1940 coastal shipping convoys ...
From left to right: Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Leia, Luke Skywalker and R2D2 And out of interest, Heights: Harrison Ford 6’1″ David Prowse 6’6″ or 6’7″ Peter Mayhew 6’9″ Carrie Fisher 5’1″ Mark Hammil 5’7″ ...
The Spanish Civil War was fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals under the leadership of José Sanjurjo ...
As you’ve probably realized many moons ago, the rich aren’t like us. It’s probably safe to bet that they’ve never had to rummage through their car seats for lunch money. And if their kids start to ...
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