Stories
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The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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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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John Petherick: Travel journal in the Sudan
Date: August 1862-June 1863Reference: MS.5787Part of: Petherick, John (1813-1882), British Consul at Khartoum, traveller- Books
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Sanatoria for consumptives in various parts of the world (France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, the United States and the British Possessions) : a critical and detailed description together with an exposition of the open-air or hygienic treatment of phthisis / by F. Rufenacht Walters ; with an introduction by Sir Richard Douglas Powell.
Walters, F. Rufenacht.Date: 1899- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence and papers of Sir John Bowring while Consul at Canton and Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of Trade in China
Date: 1850-1858Reference: MS.6128/30-41Part of: Bowring, Sir John (1792-1872), linguist, writer and traveller- Archives and manuscripts
Katherine Harriet Petherick: Travel journal in the Sudan
Date: January 1862-July 1863Reference: MS.5788Part of: Petherick, John (1813-1882), British Consul at Khartoum, traveller- Archives and manuscripts
Letters to Sir John Bowring from various correspondents
Date: 1810-1871Reference: MS.6128/1-29Part of: Bowring, Sir John (1792-1872), linguist, writer and traveller