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29/10/2025

RAF Pilot Gets a Haircut in between Missions at Fairlop Airfield in Essex; 1942.

During WW2’s Battle of Britain pilots had to be ready at a moment’s notice to jump into their cockpits and defend the country against German attack across the channel. Detection and monitoring of enemy aircraft by radar stations would feed into the RAF Fighter Command and from here, air crews would be scrambled. The scramble order was communicated to alert pilots waiting by their aircraft by the loud ringing of a bell. Every minute lost before takeoff would be advantageous to the enemy, as it could allow a pilot to gain extra height above the advancing plane formations.

No time to finish the trim, time to fly.

11/10/2025

POV: You’ve just handed a Parisian a bottle of Coca Cola to try for the first time and asked for an honest reaction in 1950s France.

These series of photographs tell the tale of Coke’s marketing push into a post war France (the drink had been available previously but US influence after world war 2 is where things picked up). As American corporates looked to enter the European market, Parisians were resistant making this new sugary drink initially a hard sell.

If you ask us, judging by the bottle, the first guy enjoyed it more than he was letting on..

These beautiful photos by LIFE photographer Mark Kauffman.

04/04/2025

A Chimpanzee showing its sensitive side, feeding a leopard cub in Southam Park Zoo, UK: 1971

01/04/2025

1. A Northumbrian Miner tucks into his evening Meal after a hard days work; 1937. Photographer: Bill Brandt.

2. “Friends, 1940s”

3. A man plucks out his next potential read in the Cincinnati Library which was demolished in 1955.

4. One lucky son takes a sip from his fathers beer in a Dublin pub; 1959. Photo by Marvin Koner.

5. A young boy dances through a crowd at a “Gypsy wedding” in Tarascon, France; 1953. Taken by the incredible Sabine Weiss.

6. Old school selfie..the five photographers Joe Byron, Pirie MacDonald, Colonel Marceau, Pop Core (best name ever) and Ben Falk stand together on a New York City rooftop.

7. French Shepards watch their flock atop stilts known as “tchangues”, used to traverse difficult marshy terrain; Gascony, 1895.

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