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- Article
Titans in the landscape
| Ruth Garde
- Photo story
- Photo story
The spectacle maker
| Clare DowdyCarmel King
Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Healing hearts and saving lives
| Joanna CannonBenjamin Gilbert
Cardiology is a prestigious specialism, known for its life-saving, heroic staff. But a doctor’s training eventually reveals other, less obvious ways to save lives.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
| Dr Emily Mayhew
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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- Article
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.