Stories
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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Manipulating the evidence with deepfake technology
How can you be sure that the person speaking on the screen is genuine? Find out how sophisticated digital manipulation is blurring the boundaries between real and ‘deepfake’.
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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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A bemused husband querying a doctor as to how his wife of only six months can have already given birth to a child. Wood engraving, 1838.
Date: 1838Reference: 11190iPart of: Actors by gaslight- Pictures
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Actors in role: a young lover/rebel Shirai Gompachi reading a love letter while being led along by a courtesan's child attendant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 11, 1856Reference: 35859i- Pictures
A fragment showing a child actor in role. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1820s/1830s.
Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861.Date: [between 1820 and 1829/between 1830 and 1839]Reference: 35653i- Books
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Report of the Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of His Majesty, August 1950.
Great Britain. Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet.Date: 1950- Pictures
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Charlie Bray in character as a Dutch girl. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2044768iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.