FIVE BOYS: THE STORY OF A PICTURE | More Intelligent Life

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For 70 years, this picture has been used to tell the same story – of inequality, class division, “toffs and toughs”. As an old Etonian closes in on Downing Street, it is being trotted out again. But what was the real story behind it? Ian Jack investigates …

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via: The Online Photographer: The Story of a Picture by Ian Jack