Stories
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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’
I’m a painter, but I make worlds.
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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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The Martians are coming
For over a hundred years, antagonistic alien invaders have been a popular focus for the imagined end of the world. But the destructive consequences of human behaviour is far more frightening.
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Why the scariest monsters look almost human
Something is wrong, but you’re not sure what. Amy Jones explores exactly why your worst nightmare is the monster that’s almost human.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
`Aliens', TL's testimonials and correspondence re refugee European medical scientists and practitioners
Date: March 1938-May 1939Reference: PP/LEW/A/4Part of: Lewis, Sir Thomas- Books
Aliens and alienists : ethnic minorities and psychiatry / Roland Littlewood and Maurice Lipsedge.
Littlewood, Roland.Date: 1982- Archives and manuscripts
Chain's British Aliens Registrations card
Date: 1933-1939Reference: PP/EBC/A.35Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Archives and manuscripts
Port Health Administration: 11. [The Aliens Order 1920]
Date: 1920-1933Reference: PP/JRH/A/222Part of: Hutchinson, James Randal (c. 1880-1955) and Bradley, William Henry (1898-1975)- Books
- Online
The oeconomy of quackery considered, in a reply to Mr. Spilsbury's pamphlet, entitled, free thoughts on quacks and their medicines. To which is added, An answer to a surgeon's letter to the Master, Wardens, and Court of Assistants, on their permitting Aliens, Apothecaries, and Quacks, to encroach on the Business of Surgeons. By Thomas Prosser.
Prosser, Thomas, active 1790.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]