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For a brief period, the LEGO Group experimented with ridges and slots on the underside of bricks

In the early 1940s, the Royal Mint replaced the familiar image of a portcullis on the threepenny coin with a thrift plant. This was part of the government’s campaign reminding the public of the need f

Design Master Yoel Mazur builds LEGO City racers as he tells Blocks Editor Graham E. Hancock how being persistent led to his dream role, what it is like to create new elements every day and the advantages that come with making concept models

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From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals