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
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.
- 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?
Catalogue
- Pictures
World War One. Postcards, 1914/1918.
Date: 1914-1918Reference: 573229i- Pictures
World War One: naval medical scenes. Photographs, 1914/1918.
Date: 1914-1918Reference: 573881i- Videos
World War One at home : Royal Victoria Hospital.
Date: 2014- Pictures
World War One: naval, military and medical scenes. Photographs, 1914/1918.
Date: 1914-1918Reference: 573613i- Pictures
World War One: military scenes in Belgium and France. Photographs, 1915/1918.
Date: 1915-1918Reference: 573532i