Stories
- Book extract
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.
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
- 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
- Archives and manuscripts
Medical History of the War
Date: June 1920 - January 1922Reference: GC/42/5Part of: Elliott, Professor Thomas Renton- Archives and manuscripts
Medical History of the War - Jaundice
Date: 1943-1945Reference: PP/JRH/C/34Part of: Hutchinson, James Randal (c. 1880-1955) and Bradley, William Henry (1898-1975)- Archives and manuscripts
'History of Wellcome Research Laboratories - II'
Date: c.1930s-c.1970Reference: WF/M/H/08/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Brentwood: World War II display boards
Date: late 20th centuryReference: SA/HHC/D/5/1/5Part of: Harrison-Howell Blood Transfusion Collection- Books
- Online
Vaccinating Britain : mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War / Gareth Millward.
Millward, GarethDate: 2019