Stories
- Article
Can our minds be taken hostage?
It’s not unusual for captives to end up feeling strong bonds with their captors. But is it a matter of submission or survival?
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Photographs, nominal rolls, etc., re memorials to RAMC personnel who died during the First World War
Date: c.1914-1918Reference: RAMC/1811/3Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Photographs of memorials at the grave of Captain Matthew Louis Hughes, RAMC, killed at the Battle of Colenso, Dec 1899, during the Boer War
Date: 20th centuryReference: RAMC/534Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Bound transcription of the Book of Remembrance, the roll of honour of the RAMC personnel killed during the Second World War, 1939-1945, with appendix re other RAMC memorials in Westminster Abbey
Date: 1947Reference: RAMC/353Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Photographs relating to Central America, 1980, memorials to RAMC personnel, 1950s-1960s, mobile laborator, 1940, and casualty rescue in the mountains.
Date: c.1940-1980sReference: RAMC/1941Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Lance Corporal Henry Eric Harden, North-West Europe, Second World War
Date: 1945Reference: RAMC/801/14/24Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection