Stories
- In pictures
War and disfigurement
The fighting methods of World War I brought with them a huge increase in disfiguring facial injury. See how surgeons and sculptors helped injured men face the world again.
- Book extract
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
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- In pictures
The evolution of war-zone medicine
The need to deal with battlefield injuries has led to inventive designs for extreme situations. Find out how camel-drawn ambulances and flat-pack hospitals have helped casualties survive.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
War
Date: Early 20th centuryReference: PP/BOW/K.1/23Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
[War Against Tropical Disease]
Date: Oct 1920-Feb 1922Reference: WA/BSR/BA/Pub/D.3Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
[War Against Tropical Disease]
Date: Jun 1920-Jul 1922Reference: WA/BSR/BA/Pub/D.4Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
[War Against Tropical Disease]
Date: Mar-Oct 1920Reference: WA/BSR/BA/Pub/D.2Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
[War Against Tropical Disease]
Date: Oct 1919-Mar 1920Reference: WA/BSR/BA/Pub/D.1Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research