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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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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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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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  • World War One, two nurses attending to a patient
  • World War One: two scenes from a hospital ship, a burial service and slightly wounded men on deck. Two halftones, c. 1916, after photographs.
  • First World War wounded soldiers: group portrait: four standing, two seated. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • First World War wounded soldiers: group portrait: two lying in hospital beds; two standing; one seated. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • First World War wounded soldiers, two lying in hospital beds, with medical staff. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • World War One: two stretcher bearers removing a wounded man under fire. Wash painting, c. 1916.
  • World War One: two orderlies and a working dog of the German Red Cross. Halftone, c. 1916.
  • First World War wounded soldiers (naval?): group portrait: two lying in hospital beds; the remaining standing. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • World War One: a military medic having his head shaved by two men at a dressing station. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • World War I: two men carrying a stretcher among the trenches in France. Wash drawing by D. Lindsay, ca. 191-.
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