Stories
- Article
Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW)
Date: 1981-1988Reference: K/PP178/11/22Part of: Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to anti-nuclear speeches by Wilkins, chiefly for CND, with related material
Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) Britten, Stewart Shainberg, David, 1932-1993 Medical Research Council (MRC)Date: 1975-2004Reference: K/PP178/11/14/1Part of: Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)- Archives and manuscripts
Medact
Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (f. 1980)Date: c.1955-c.2008Reference: SA/MED- Pictures
The effects of a nuclear bomb attack on London. Lithographs after Peter Kennard and Peter Gladwin, 1985.
Date: 1985Reference: 2117747i- Archives and manuscripts
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Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to Friends of the Earth and anti-nuclear weapons campaigning
Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004 Lovins, Amory B., b.1947 Friends of the Earth LimitedDate: 1978-1994Reference: K/PP178/11/16Part of: Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)