Brad Smithfield
Brad Smithfield is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Brad Smithfield:
“Oxfords not Brogues”: the origins of the leather footwear
John George Haigh or the Acid Bath Murderer was a monstrous English serial killer in the 1940s
The legend of the martyred St. Escrava Anastacia, the beautiful slave girl who was forced to wear a face mask
Rare photos of indigenous Sami people of The Nordic Areas
Radium Girls: The poignant story of the women who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint
An 11-year-old boy led Hiram Bingham to rediscover Machu Picchu
Jazz musician Jack Lesberg smashed his double-bass through a wall to escape the Cocoanut Grove Fire of 1942, the biggest nightclub fire in history
The inventor of the Theremin, Léon Theremin, also created one of the first covert listening devices that sat undetected for seven years in the American Embassy in Moscow
Over a thousand Nigerian soldiers assaulted Fela Kuti’s commune and recording studio, the Kalakuta Republic, brutally murdering his mother and burning the compound to the ground
The sitter from “The Ugly Duchess,” Quentin Matsys’ most famous painting suffered a rare bone disease
