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Maurice Broomfield: When Things Could Only Get Better

Featuring pictures of steelworks, weaving looms, and giant gears. Maurice Broomfield’s wonderful images of British industry capture both the optimism of 1960s Britain, but also the otherworldly nature of industrial sights.
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Maurice Broomfield, Die Casting, Qualcast Lawnmower Works, Derbyshire 1954 © Estate of Maurice Broomfieldblind
In 1963, Harold Wilson gave a speech to the Labour Party Conference. He talked about a new Britain forged in the “white heat of technology”...

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Colin Pantall

Colin Pantall is a writer, photographer and lecturer based in Bath, England. His photography is about childhood and the mythologies of family identity.

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