Jones, who passed away in 1972 at 31, captured the leisure and relaxation culture of 1960s England. From seaside resorts to fairs and society events, the photographer cast an amused yet gentle gaze on ...

Aside from the occasional Yiddish-spewing East End gangster, Anglo-Jewish life has evolved largely off the radar of British national cinema. That’s all changing in the new multiculti England, and ...

ROBERT FROST’S English experience, which began in 1912 and within two and a half years established his place in modern poetry in a final way, stands out as dramatic in the very manner that a Frost ...

Back lit for a clearer view, this display is a chart of letters used by an optician to test a person’s sight at various distances. Such charts are perhaps the most iconic objects in sight testing. A ...

On the surface, Rufus Sewell’s character Mark Easterbrook in “Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse” has it all — in the most polished TV sense imaginable. It’s 1960s London, and he’s a very successful ...

Before implantable pacemakers were developed that contained batteries, attempts were made to power them from outside the chest. This induction-type cardiac pacemaker has a power unit and two induction ...