50 Extraordinary Black-and-White Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Post-war 1950s Britain
Thurston Hopkins was one of Britain’s greatest photojournalists and, while working for Picture Post, captured the humanity, spirit and social inequality and contradictions of life in post-war 1950s Britain. During the 1940s and 1950s Picture Post was to Britain what Life magazine was to America….
20 Remarkable Black and White Photographs Capture Air Travel in Its Glory From Between the 1930s and 1970s
It was a golden age of flying – glamorized by first class passengers being fed from silver service food trolleys and celebrities posing next to planes before jetting off around the world. Or in the case of Playboy’s Hugh Hefner, posing…
25 Interesting Vintage Photographs Show London Pubs Through the Years
Samuel Pepys once described the pub as ‘the heart of England’, and rightly so, considering that there are few more pleasurable things than supping a pint of ale in good company. From naval reserve sailors toasting to their health to…
25 Black and White Photographs Captured Street Scenes of London in 1975
Chris Steele-Perkins is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1947 to a British father and a Burmese mother; but his father left his mother and took the boy to England at…
30 Stunning Black and White Photographs of London in the 1930s and 1940s
Arriving in London in 1935, the Viennese photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky is best known for his depictions of London in the 1930s and 1940s. However a photography career spanning 70 years has seen him capture many subjects, all with the same genuine affection….
28 Vintage Color Snapshots of London in the 1960s
Some of these photographs were taken when the photographer was just 13 years old, with a Halina PET camera and Ektachrome film. He lived in Byfleet, a village lies around 20 miles from the center of London. From 1971 to…
Rock Against Racism: Stunning Pictures of British Punk and Reggae Bands Using Music to Fight Fascism in the 1970s
Syd Shelton has been a street photographer in the UK and Australia for the past several decades. His iconic photographs of punk, protests and portraits help to tell England’s story of anti-racist activism. In the 1970s Syd was one of…
Vintage Photos Capture Dapper Teddy Boys From the 1950s to the 1970s
Teddy Boys, or Teds, were a subculture of young adults wearing smart clothes partly inspired by dandies in the Edwardian era. Began in London in the early 1950s, it rapidly spread across the United Kingdom and became closely associated with…
Vintage Photos Capture People Wearing Masks During the Great Smog in the 1950s
In early December 1952, a thick layer of smog–a combination of cold weather, windless conditions, and sulfurous acidic smoke arising from the abundant use of coal–settled over the British capital. As London had already been infamous for its heavy fog,…
Street Scenes of London in 1963
The Sixties was such a creative time in London with Beatlemania raging, Ian Fleming‘s James Bond making it to the big screen in 1962 and the first episode of Doctor Who airing in 1963. Have you ever wondered what it was like…