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Eels and feels
| Ruth Garde
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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Charged bodies
| Ruth Garde
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.
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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
| Anthony McKay
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
| Ken Hollings
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.