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Catalhoyuk (Catal Hoyuk and Catal Huyuk) - a very large Neolithic

Catalhoyuk (Catal Hoyuk and Catal Huyuk) - a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. Level XII and Shrine of Level VIII (top photo) and the spectacular Bull Shrine, the north wall (with a dramatic painting showing Neolithic hunters attacking an aurochs) of level V. Article by James Mellaart, Lecturer in Anatolian Archaeology in the University of London. Date: 1966

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Private Lives, fashion on stage, Gertrude Lawrence

Article by Florence Roberts in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reporting on the fashions on stage (and in the stalls) during Noel Coward's play, Private Lives at the Phoenix Theatre. The photograph shows the star of the show, Gertrude Lawrence reaching for a cigarette in a scene from the play, wearing a dress by Edward Molyneux. Molyneux and Lawrence would have a long-standing creative collaboration.
1930

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Strangling of the Beer Bill by Lord Brougham

Newspaper article, Strangling (with a misprint!) of the Beer Bill by Lord Brougham and other peers in the House of Lords. The writer claims that many families will be ruined as a result, and that it will disadvantage poor and working class people. The move was designed to limit the sale of beer amongst the poorer population by partially repealing the Sale of Beer Act (or Beerhouse Act) of 1830.
circa 1839

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