Stories
- Article
Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
China - Digital files
Date: 2011-2012Reference: PP/MDM/A/3/5/3Part of: Mackenzie, Melville Douglas- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
China Mission at Amoy
Date: 1863-1864Reference: MS.5852/60-62Part of: Morrison and Hobson Families- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
China Missionaries
Date: 1939-1942Reference: WTI/SGB/A.27/4Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)- Pictures
- Online
The Chinese town, West Point, Hong Kong. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
Floyd, William Pryor.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 934iPart of: Floyd, William Pryor.