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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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  • Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals & Fleets, 1879.
  • Two sepoys dressed in Western military uniforms. Gouache drawing.
  • A Hindu warrior and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A French soldier boasts that he and six others have 'evacuated' 300 Mexicans from a square;a military surgeon, holding an enema, counters that he has 'evacuated' many more single-handed. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard).
  • Cavalry drill in the mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • A Japanese Samurai warrior in his armour. Watercolour.
  • A naval physician in uniform studying books at a large table. Coloured lithograph, 1829.
  • American Civil War: officers saluting the wounded being brought in after the battle of Lewinsville, Virginia, 1861. Wood engraving by F. Skill.
  • Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: British soldiers climbing down to fetch water from the bottom of a pit. Halftone by André & Sleigh Ld after C.E. Fripp, 1896.
  • Men of different classes and nationalities smoking in different ways. Coloured lithograph.
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