Six archive photographs of a woman in a long coat and hat performing jiu-jitsu throws against a man and a police officer.

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Suffragettes Learn Jiu-Jitsu Techniques to Resist Police Violence

25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu techniques in order to resist police violence

Four women in white lace dresses and wide-brimmed hats, seen from behind, walk across grass with horses in the distance.

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Ladies in white dresses and hats at the races, photograph of 1908

Ladies at the races. Photograph of 1908 🤍

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Fashion is fashion, but perhaps you had better see a trichologist?

The First Doctor Who, William Hartnell, tries on a wig

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In December 1893 Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Final Problem" in The Strand Magazine, bringing the cycle of stories about the noble detective to a close

In December 1893 Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Final Problem" in The Strand Magazine, bringing the cycle of stories about the noble detective to a close. At the end of the story Professor Moriarty kills Sherlock Holmes: the two of them fall together from a cliff at the

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For lovers of the inapposite but grandiloquent turn of phrase: yes, you can now say you have seen Marcel Proust in his coffin

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Alphonse Mucha snaps Paul Gauguin playing the harmonium in his studio without trousers

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev in His Youth

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At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhai

At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhail Bulgakov expressed surprise that a certain Comrade B-

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1980 Minutes of a USSR Academy of Sciences Council Banning Citation of Scientists Who Emigrated

Found an interesting document in my home archive: the minutes of a meeting of one of the councils at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The agenda is extremely topical and perfectly intelligible in our present circumstances. The item in question was a ban on mentioning in dissertations the

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Models of Old Paris, including a model of the Île de la Cité as it stood in the sixteenth century, made in the early twentieth century by the topographical artist Gaston Renault

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On 7 November 1917 the storming of the Winter Palace took place, the seat of the Provisional Government

On 7 November 1917 the storming of the Winter Palace took place, the seat of the Provisional Government. The well-known footage of the storming of the Winter Palace is in fact not documentary: this shot, like many others, comes from Nikolay Evreinov's theatrical production "The Storming

Black-and-white press photograph of a plaster sculpture of a reclining nude man in a studio, captioned “Worker’s Rest”.

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Sculpture “Worker’s Rest”, a 1924 work by a VKHUTEIN student

"Sir, are you all right?" "Can't you see? I'm resting." Work by a VKhUTEIN student, 1924