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13 Feb 2020In 1979 Pete Wrong of the art collective and Punk band Crass was being interviewed by New Society about his graffiti operation on the London Underground: ‘We don’t just rip the posters down or spray them. We use stencils, neatly, to qualify them.
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19 Dec 2019The planning of cities from the 1940s to the 1960s is one of the major strands of British (and indeed, international) post-war social history.
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3 Aug 2017On 25 March 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, New York, and quickly began to spread. This floor, as well as the ninth and tenth, housed the Triangle Waist Company, a sweat shop producing ladies’ blouses.
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17 Sep 2015A stigma around the ill-defined genre of popular history lingers in the academy.