Stories
- Article
Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
- Article
Charged bodies
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.
- Article
‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
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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.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
[Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
Date: 1881- Ephemera
- Online
[Newspaper cutting titled: New wonders at the Royal Aquarium (November 1881?) in Mr. Farini's (William Hunt) Gallery. These are Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
Date: 1881- Pictures
- Online
Roy Newlands. Photograph, 193-.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]Reference: 2059156iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Why drag? / Magnus Hastings ; foreword by Boy George.
Hastings, MagnusDate: [2016]- Books
The Wild Boy of Aveyron / Harlan Lane.
Lane, Harlan, 1936-2019.Date: 1977