Stories
- Article
Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
- 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.
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What happy endings teach us in childhood
Kate Wilkinson explores why, in quest fiction, good must triumph over evil, and what that means both for childhood dreams and adult realities.
- In pictures
The serious side of historical games
Some games carry a weighty message, from the earliest form of snakes and ladders that led to either heaven or hell, to chess pieces representing the dangerous manoeuvres of unsafe sex in the 80s.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Puzzles
Date: 20th CenturyReference: PENROSE/1/7/3Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Puzzles
Date: c.1958-1967Reference: PENROSE/1/7Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
Puzzles, problems, and enigmas : occasional pieces on the human aspects of science / John Ziman.
Ziman, J. M. (John M.), 1925-2005.Date: 1981- Books
Puzzles in paper : concepts in historical watermarks : essays from the International Conference on the History, Function, and Study of Watermarks, Roanoke, Virginia / edited by Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle & Ernest W. Sullivan, II.
Date: 2000
- Ephemera
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How to catch the coin / J. Lyons & Co.
Date: [1926]