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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.

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How do advertisers get inside our heads?

Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.

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A wee spot of bother

Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.

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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.

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  • Franco-Prussian War: Civil unrest in Paris. Wood engraving.
  • Franco-Prussian War: Civil unrest in Paris. Wood engraving after W. Simpson.
  • Advice on hygiene for Republican soldiers in the Spanish Civil War. Lithograph, 1937/1938.
  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: American Civil War freight car: a model. Photograph, 1876.
  • American Civil War: the free and slave states, and of the unsettled territory. Wood engraving, 1856.
  • Plate XIII. Results of excisions of the head of the humerus. American Civil War (1861-65).
  • Plate LIV. Results of resections at the elbow for shot injury. American Civil War (1861-65).
  • King Charles I giving orders to Sir Edward Walker during the English Civil War. Engraving, 1705.
  • Plate XVIII. Results of excisions of the head of the humerus. American Civil War (1861-65).
  • Plate XVII. Results of excisions of the head of the humerus. American Civil War (1861-65).
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