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History Revealed Magazine

16 February 2023

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Keeping the holmes fires burning

The months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two saw 20th Century Fox release two new films starring Basil Rathbone as the great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as his l

Who Do You Think You Are?

A revolution on the road

Visiting Coventry in 1934, a centre of the motor industry, writer JB Priestley mused that, “The modern motor car represents an astonishing feat of human ingenuity. If we were one half so clever in the

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Coast Magazine

Postcards from the past

Kathryn Ferry delves into 20th-century holiday habits with the help of her postcard collection

Amateur Photographer

First exposure

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…