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.
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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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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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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?
Catalogue
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World War One. Postcards, 1914/1918.
Date: 1914-1918Reference: 573229i- Videos
World War One at home : Royal Victoria Hospital.
Date: 2014- Pictures
World War One: naval medical scenes. Photographs, 1914/1918.
Date: 1914-1918Reference: 573881i
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World War One: three French prisoners of war slouching in a prison yard. Colour halftone after a crayon drawing by L. Raemaekers.
Raemaekers, Louis, 1869-1956.Reference: 24576i
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World War One: soldiers escorting wounded men from a war damaged building. Photogravure, 1916, after F. Matania.
Matania, Fortunino, 1881-1963.Date: 30 September 1916Reference: 24084i