“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
—attributed to Mark Twain
And commenting on history, the perceptive and well-regarded English biographer Anne de Courcy has observed that it “is made all the time, not just by the noisy clash of politics, economic currents or overpowering personalities but by the everyday texture and attitudes of contemporary life.” Here then is this edition’s selection of vintage photographs that, in their modest way, have recorded history.
