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Caption competition: 1940s ballet dancers

I love this 1940s ballet picure, it just made me giggle. How would you caption it? I have no prizes

These photos were taken in January 1949, and very little is known about them. They were discovered in a collection

Isn’t this the most gorgeous photograph? I don’t remember looking quite that beautiful and serene when I had a newborn

A very impressive man-pyramid from the 1940s. Acrobats never cease to amaze me with what they can do with their

Oh what I crush I had on Rex Harrison… Here he is photographed with his wife, German actress Lilli Palmer

Have you got some vintage family photos? Or stacks of old magazines filled with gorgeous retro fashions? If you’ve got

Photos taken by the astronauts on moon during the Apollo missions in the late 60s and early 70s. The photo

A group of bathers photographed in 1946. The group includes Swedish writers Artur Lundkvist and his wife Maria Wine (second and

Wallis Simpson, later the Duchess of Windsor, photographed in the 1930s. She obviously liked wearing striking jewellery even then…

Young girls in bikinis posing for a photo in Naples, 1948. Which is your favourite swimsuit? I think mine is

Isn’t this a delightful photo? I know that opinions have changed enormously about having exotic animals as pets and you

Girls conducting an experiment in a chemistry lesson at Queen’s College, Barbados in June 1964. School uniforms just don’t look

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Princess Margaret with Sir Raynor Arthur during a brief visit to Nassau in May 1958 Source and copyright: No known

A before and after shot of a woman wearing a Spencer Corset from 1941. Source and copyright: This file is

A new photography exhibition opens tomorrow at the Barbican Art Gallery in London: Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s

Above: A welder works on the deck of a new ship, Tyneside, 1943 A new exhibition opens at the Imperial