Stories
- Article
The joys and failures of audio description
Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.
- Article
The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
- 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
Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Washington
Date: Mid-late 20th CenturyReference: GC/222/9/32Part of: Hewitt, Dr Harold Burnett (b. 1915)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
"Washington meeting"
Date: 1979-1980Reference: SA/PGP/D/5Part of: All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health- Audio
Washington HUGO conference.
Date: 1994- Archives and manuscripts
Washington, George (1732-1799)
Washington, George, 1732-1799, President of the United States of AmericaDate: 1759-1922Reference: MS.7799 & WMS/Amer.91- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Washington, George'
Date: 1936Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Sai/A.101Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library