Stories
- Article
The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
- Article
How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction
Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.
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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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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
Catalogue
- Books
Fiction & physicians : medicine through the eyes of writers / Stephen McWilliams.
McWilliams, Stephen, 1974-Date: [2012]- Books
Fiction in the archives : pardon tales and their tellers in sixteenth-century France / Natalie Zemon Davis.
Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928-2023Date: 1987- Journals
- Online
ELT: English Fiction in Transition
- Archives and manuscripts
'The Cancer Epidemic: Fact and Fiction'
Date: 1981Reference: PP/DOL/E/2/1aPart of: Doll, Sir Richard (1912-2005)- Archives and manuscripts
'The Cancer Epidemic: Fact and Fiction'
Date: 1981Reference: PP/DOL/E/2/1Part of: Doll, Sir Richard (1912-2005)