Charles Peace was a violent Sheffield burglar and murderer, but Victorian popular culture transformed him into something stranger: a criminal celebrity whose disguises and escapes became entertainment. Within months of his 1879 execution, Charles Peace had escaped into penny dreadfuls, waxworks and legend, where the ingenious rogue increasingly overshadowed the considerably less charming real man.

No Wave Cinema emerged from late-1970s downtown New York with cheap cameras, tiny budgets and the useful conviction that permission was somebody else’s problem. Its filmmakers turned clubs, streets and apartments into sets, carrying punk’s DIY logic into a strain of independent cinema whose influence lasted far longer than the scene itself.

Photocopier history sounds like the sort of subject best left beneath fluorescent lights with the stationery cupboard locked safely nearby, but the machine changed how information, art and underground culture circulated. From corporate paper avalanches to 1970s copy art, the humble copier gave almost anyone the power to reproduce something instantly — and we have been drowning in copies ever since.