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Thursday, 10 December 2015

The Reschen Lake in southern Tyrol, Italy which covers the sunken village of Graun which was the site of the Italian Sailing Championship in 1953

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Italy's Fausto Coppi finishing the seventeenth lap of the bicycle race across Italy, on June 5, 1952.

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The family visited Highland Castle, Scotland in 1920 and saw some of the estate's residents

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In October 1919 Tottenham Court Road at the junction with Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, London. The Court Playhouse is on the right, and the Underground station in front

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A boy and adult approaching a ticket seller's booth for the ornate Algerian Theatre in 1896

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Visit were spoilt for choice when it came to bar and restaurant choices to entertain themselves with after a swim (photo taken in 1900)

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Saturday, 5 December 2015

Hammersmith Broadway with the underground station on the right and elaborate railings at the entrance to public conveniences in the centre, in 1910

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British tourists pose in front of the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt in fashionable clothing from the 1880s

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Bathing machines shelter shy holidaymakers from prying eyes at St-Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, in 1895

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Jeddah in 70's

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The Enemy, 1944. With the outbreak of world war two, photojournalism was enlisted in defence of Mother Russia.

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Tales of the Sea, 1976. Lithuanian photographer Vitaly Butyrin draws on a rich Soviet history with his often surreal photo-montages.

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Perfume No8, 1958. This picture, the eighth in a series on perfume, shows Alexander Khlebnikov’s move into fashion and advertising photography in the 1950s.

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Images from the 1873 book The Wonderland of the Antipodes and other sketches of travel in the North Island of in New Zealand

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Italian driver Alberto Ascari steers his Lancia at the finish line of the 1000 Miles race in Rome in 1954

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