Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
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.
Catalogue
- Books
Psychiatric aspects of the prevention of nuclear war / formulated by the Committee on Social Issues.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Social IssuesDate: [1964]- Books
The Medical implications of nuclear war / Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences ; Fredric Solomon and Robert Q. Marston, editors ; with a foreword by Lewis Thomas.
Date: 1986- Books
Fathering the unthinkable : masculinity, scientists and the nuclear arms race / Brian Easlea.
Easlea, BrianDate: 1983- Books
Arms or health? : the effects of the arms race on health in the absence of nuclear war : proceedings of a conference, October 25th 1986, Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic / edited by Chris Taggart and John Middleton.
Date: 1986- Books
Understanding the imaginary war : culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945-90 / edited by Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann.
Date: 2016