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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.
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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?
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World War I: an ambulance. Chalk drawing.
Reference: 45938i- Pictures
World War I: album of R.P. Humphreys. Photographs, 1914/1918.
Humphreys, R. P., active approximately 1918.Date: 1914-1918Reference: 678085i- Pictures
World War I: a crashed Royal Air Force aeroplane. Gouache in grisaille.
Date: [1918?]Reference: 45171i
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World War I: a hospital in a church. Charcoal drawing.
Reference: 45940i- Pictures
World War I: German medical staff, probably in Flanders. Photograph, ca. 1914.
Date: [1914?]Reference: 2848909i
