A Web Site dedicated to the perpetuation of Gregg’s Light-Line Phonography

Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000. As featured in the BBC Radio 3 programme, Hear & Now.

Malevich and Kabakov, Stalin and Khrushchev, the Avant-Garde, Socialist Realism and the Underground – everything you need to know about Russian art in video and in lectures

Alrighty, I see a lot of people wondering how the fuck you do this, so I’m going to try my best to put together a simple guide… for my method of getting the VHS/TV effect.

Photographer Jason Travis invites strangers to empty their bags and share the things they carry with them every day.

It was mocked and misunderstood. But it produced some of the most sublime, awe-inspiring buildings on the planet. Jonathan Meades, maker of a new TV series about brutalism, gives his A-Z

As the Minsk History Museum in Belarus holds an exhibition celebrating the USSR, we look back at some of the best Soviet poster art

Here you can find over 4,500 Chinese propaganda posters, with information about their history, background and design. You can browse a Gallery of 200 highlights, look at over 300 theme presentations, or search and browse by poster, artist and tags.

I was given a rare treat. It was not an expensive piece of jewelry, or a free ticket to Hawaii. It was better than that. I took a 3-hour ride through all 16 of the stations in the Pyongyang Metro, a priceless experience.

Paul Oliver Vernacular Architecture Library Images (POVALi) comprises over 20,000 images taken by Professor Paul Oliver MBE over a period of more than 50 years.

The Queen's College, University of Oxford

Robert Eglesfield, chaplain of Queen Philippa the Patroness, founded The Queen’s College in 1341 with endowments from Edward III and the Queen.

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Go to the sunny South.

Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them