About
Rights and takedown
How we clear images, credit creators, seek consent, and remove material on request.
Images
For every image we record, separately: the copyright holder, who owns the object, the photographer, whether the model consented, the licence and the required credit. Product packaging, magazine scans and celebrity photographs are normally in copyright even when they are historically important, and we treat them that way.
All the pictures at the top of our pages, and the line-up on the home page, are modern AI-generated images made for this site. They are reconstructions, not historical sources: please do not use them to date a photograph or to identify a style. They never show the faces of the real people our biographies describe. When we publish a historical image — a museum photograph, say — it will carry a caption and credit naming its source.
Consent
This site does not collect photographs, memories or other personal material from readers, and it does not publish photographs of identifiable living people taken for the site. We do not show sacred or private practices without consent, and we will not publish restricted knowledge.
Takedown
If you are a rights holder, or you appear in something on this site and want it removed, email [email protected]. We will remove disputed material promptly while we look into the request.
Last updated 12 November 2026.