Stories
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The psychological impact of nuclear war
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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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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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
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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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
Catalogue
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Anatomy of malice : the enigma of the Nazi war criminals / Joel E. Dimsdale.
Dimsdale, Joel E., 1947-Date: [2016]- Pictures
A Chinese worker seizes a Japanese scientist responsible for biological and chemical weapons in World War II, while other Japanese scientists are chained and jailed by a Russian warder; representing anti-Japanese feeling in China after the War. Colour lithograph, 1952.
Date: 1952Reference: 656858i- Archives and manuscripts
2 pages from The Sphere magazine, with photographs of Japanese war criminals
Date: 1945Reference: RAMC/237/9Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
Coronavirus criminals and pandemic profiteers : accountability for those who caused the crisis / John Nichols.
Nichols, John, 1959-Date: 2022
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The burning of criminal soldiers on the stake. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44139i