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Floating Heads Cabaret Collection #2
Today we bring to you more photographs from the west end of London circa 1880 to 1900. As previously mentioned, this club was a hotbed for the advent of European bohemians and creatives. It is recorded that the likes of Squire Bancroft, Ivan Berlyn and John Clayton visited there alongside the highly regarded double act…
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“The War of the Magic Mushrooms” Collection #1
Some of these images might look like they belong in the Victorian Hoax collection, but our experts and researchers have assured us of their authenticity. Today’s collection centres around an unusual incident which took place at a now dissolved village in Yorkshire called Skail (pronounced ‘Scale’). Records show that Skail was 3 miles from any…
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Psychedelic Art in Victorian England Collection #1
Many people still believe that psychedelia grew out of various counterculture movements of the 1960s. Today we hope to correct this misconception once and for all. We know that psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin and DMT have been used for thousands of years all over the world. Here in England, magic mushrooms grow in the…
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