Stories
- Book extract
The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
- Article
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.
- Article
Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
"Military Repression"
Date: Early 1970sReference: SA/BSR/E/12Part of: British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS): archives- Archives and manuscripts
Jhansi and Hazaribagh Military Hospitals: case notes
Date: 1873-1874Reference: MS.3704Part of: O'Farrell, Thomas (1843-1917), military surgeon- Archives and manuscripts
Hospitals, Military
Date: c. 1810Reference: MS.2949- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Science and the problems of flying'; 'Air transport of the sick and wounded', with ts notes, Military Studies Special Lectures, University of London, Feb 1954
Date: 1954Reference: PP/HEW/G.13/2Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Books
Military R & D after the cold war : conversion and technology transfer in Eastern and Western Europe / edited by Philip Gummett [and others].
Date: 1996