Stories
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
- Article
Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
- Article
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.
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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
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Russian Jews being examined by a doctor before emigration from Liverpool to the United States. Wood engraving after C.J. Staniland, 1891.
Staniland, Charles Joseph, 1838-1916.Date: 1891Reference: 38324i- Videos
The Bomb.
Date: 1980- Pictures
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China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
Date: 1971Reference: 660567i- Pictures
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Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
Renouard, Paul, 1845-1924.Date: [1886]Reference: 17886i- Archives and manuscripts
Lanoxin [first marketed UK in 1939]
Date: c.1958-c.1984Reference: WF/M/PL/172Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd