Stories
- Article
Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
- 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.
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What happy endings teach us in childhood
Kate Wilkinson explores why, in quest fiction, good must triumph over evil, and what that means both for childhood dreams and adult realities.
- In pictures
The serious side of historical games
Some games carry a weighty message, from the earliest form of snakes and ladders that led to either heaven or hell, to chess pieces representing the dangerous manoeuvres of unsafe sex in the 80s.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Word Puzzle
Date: 1960-1969Reference: SB/10/66Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"The Development Puzzle" sourcebook
Date: 1972Reference: SA/BSR/H/4Part of: British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS): archives- Archives and manuscripts
The Penicillin Puzzle
Date: 2000Reference: PP/NHE/C/4/6Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)- Books
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A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause.
Puzzle-cause, Oliver.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A curious letter, from Oliver Puzzle-cause.
Puzzle-cause, Oliver.Date: 1775?]