Stories
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
- Article
Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
Catalogue
- Pictures
St. John's Ambulance Association Hospital, Etaples, after an air raid during World War I men and women stand amid the debris, surrounded by destroyed hospital buildings. Photograph, ca. 1918.
Date: 1918Reference: 581871i- Pictures
World War One: Contalmaison, France: soldiers outside a dug-out in front of a bomb-damaged building. Photograph, 1916.
Reference: 573568iPart of: World War One: military scenes in Belgium and France.- Archives and manuscripts
Casualties Union
Casualties UnionDate: 1930s-2003Reference: SA/CAS- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd