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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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Inside the mind of Living with Buildings curator, Emily Sargent

Curator Emily Sargent reveals why council estates and a Finnish TB sanatorium were chosen for the ‘Living with Buildings’ exhibition.

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The relationship between science and art

Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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  • X-Rays, from Handbuch der Geburtshilfe
  • Checking darkroom chemicals, x-rays
  • Advert reccommending chest X-rays
  • A Coolidge X-ray tube for producing X-rays.
  • Ring-shaped anode, first special type of tube for x-rays.
  • Dental X-rays showing various mouths with decayed, restored and extracted teeth.
  • A message from a child urging people to have x-rays. Lithograph, ca. 1970.
  • Advertisement for Picker X-rays, showing a woman receiving therapy from a Zephyr machine.
  • The illustrated London news, no. 3720, vol. CXXXVII Saturday, August 6, 1910 : The cabinet that saves the operator from the evils of x-rays: the King looking at a patient under the x-rays at the London Hospital / drawn by S. Begg.
  • The illustrated London news, no. 3720, vol. CXXXVII Saturday, August 6, 1910 : The cabinet that saves the operator from the evils of x-rays: the King looking at a patient under the x-rays at the London Hospital / drawn by S. Begg.
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