Stories
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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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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?
In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.
Catalogue
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Captives of war : British prisoners of war in Europe in the Second World War / Clare Makepeace.
Makepeace, ClareDate: 2017- Pictures
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Belgian prisoners of war, some in drag, pose on stage for a group portrait; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 1918.
Date: 1918Reference: 2044300iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe / edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Date: 2020- Archives and manuscripts
Statistics re casualties
Date: September 1944 - October 1944Reference: RAMC/408/3/9Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Pictures
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British prisoners of war in cowboy and cowgirl costumes posing at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
Tharan, PaulDate: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2043291iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.