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Photograph of a map of Eastern England showing expected areas of destruction after an explosive attack
By Lucy Slater

How Britain’s railways prepared for nuclear war

Monochrome photograph of Kate and Percy Smith working in a greenhouse laboratory
By Max Long

Tinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

Daguerreotype portrait of Francis Marrian by George Shaw
By Jo Gane

Photography and electroplate in 1840s Birmingham

Display within the Wellcome: The Medicine Galleries at the Science Museum. It shows a young girl wearing a prosthetic arm and an accompanying quote. The prosthetic arm was acquired by the Museum and displayed on the other side of this case
By Esme Mahoney-Phillips

Collecting twenty-first century science: an analysis of public and professional perceptions

Black and white photograph of Phil Catling wearing equipment to test eye tracking ability under vibration in 1975
By Emmeline Ledgerwood

‘We lost a type of job for a type of person in this country’: changing expectations of working in the UK scientific civil service

Black and white photograph of spectators at a railway centenary procession in 1925
By Sophie Vohra

Commemorating the past, shaping the future: the jubilee and centenary celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Colour photograph of a Watkins Electric Music Copicat Tape Delay machine circa 1961
By James Mansell, Annie Jamieson and Alexander De Little

Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums

Map of the City of Manchester from 1876 showing commercial ecclesiastical or other public buildings in red and houses built since 1831 in green
By Abi Wilson

Philanthropy, industry and the city of Manchester: the impact of Sir Joseph Whitworth’s philanthropy on Manchester’s built environment

Black and white photograph from 1910 showing the main building of Eskdalemuir Observatory
By Alexandra Rose

Seismographs at Eskdalemuir Observatory, 1908–1925: tools for rethinking the origins of international cooperation in seismology

Colour photograph of die struck gold medal of Pope Clement Seventh from 1534
By Charles Ormrod

From Renaissance medals to the Jaguar E-Type car bonnet: mechanised production and the making of luxury goods

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