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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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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Words of hope and anger

Author and spoken word poet Penny Pepper remembers her childhood dreams, and speaks out against the barriers society uses to prevent disabled people from fulfilling their potential.

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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion

How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.

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  • Statue of Liberty, 1920.
  • Suggested terra-cotta work at the Royal Botanical Gardens by Liberty & Co. London.
  • The dance of death: Liberty and Death. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
  • Our national church : the aegis of liberty, equality, fraternity : a house divided against itself?.
  • French revolutionary bank note of fifty sols, with allegorical figures of liberty and justice. Engraving by N.M. Gatteaux, 179-.
  • The Franc (Liberty, castellany) of Bruges: a sculpted fireplace in the magistrates' assembly hall of the castle (Landhuis). Lithograph by E. Manche.
  • Anglo-American research on DNA represented by Britannia and the Statue of Liberty, with festoons of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Anglo-American research on DNA represented by Britannia and the Statue of Liberty, with festoons of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • The fourth estate : contributions towards a history of newspapers, and of the liberty of the press / by F. Knight Hunt. In two vols.
  • Napoleon leaps from his bed, terrified at a nightmarish vision of ghosts and devils, while Britannia and Liberty float on a cloud behind. Etching by the Caricaturist General, 1811.
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