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The psychological impact of nuclear war
| Taras Young
How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
| Charlie WilliamsSarah MarksDaniel Pick
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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The Martians are coming
| Charlotte SleighGergo Varga
For over a hundred years, antagonistic alien invaders have been a popular focus for the imagined end of the world. But the destructive consequences of human behaviour is far more frightening.
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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
| Allison C Meier
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
| Jacqueline L ScottYvonne Maxwell
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.