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Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

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  • A Scottish sheriff, advertising Sherriffs ointment for skin diseases. Colour lithograph.
  • A Leicester tup standing in a field. Etching by T. Landseer after J. Sheriff.
  • A draught-stallion standing in front of a wooden palisade. Etching by T. Landseer after J. Sheriff.
  • The shadow of a native American man wearing a head-dress emerging from flames; warning to native Americans to practice safe sex by using condoms by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff and Edward Sheriff Curtis, 1990.
  • An owl spreads its wings clutching its prey beneath the moon; warning that AIDS is a prolonged death by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff, 1989.
  • A cat with the head of Sir Robert Peel gazes at a cage trap containing the Sheriff of Middlesex, Evans, held by Lord John Russell. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • A native American holding a drum stick with feathers and decorative hangings with a list of ways you can and can't get AIDS; advertisement by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff, 1989.
  • A candle in the dark: or, a treatise concerning the nature of witches and witchcraft: being advice to judges, sheriffes ... what to do, before they passe sentence on such as are arraigned for their lives, as witches / [Thomas Ady].
  • Have handy Sherriffs Ointment : the great cure for eczema, erysipelas, herpes, nettlerash, itch, bad legs, old sores, cuts. It is healing, soothing and antiseptic / Alexander Sherriffs.
  • Francis Goodchild, now Sheriff of London, and his wife, framed by a sword and mace, preside over a grand banquet. Sitting at a table in the foreground various dignitaries gorge themselves contrasting with the poor petitioners waiting at the door. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1796.
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