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Beyond Belief
This provocative historical work provides a voice for the forgotten victims of the British atomic bomb tests conducted in Australia during the 1950s. Raising disturbing questions about the authorities who conducted the tests, this investigative work reveals how successive British and Australian governments have denied their understanding of the dangers of ionizing radiation in the 1950s. Uncovering scenarios in which government scientists employed to monitor the tests were given protective clothing, while military personnel and workers were left unprotected and exposed to a simulated theatre of atomic war, this work places Australia's forgotten atomic tragedy into a global context.
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Fallout
Fallout is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery, but to expose as charlatans the Australian scientists who were appointed to protect the nation from any possible harm. Contrary to official pronouncements, radioactive fallout was blowing across the country and contaminating many towns and communities, including Marston's beloved Adelaide. The dispute that ensued was perhaps the most acrimonious in the history of Australian science. Fallout tells us much about the nature of science and our society. It is about science in service of the bomb, and in service of self. Roger Cross tells a story that must make us ask the alarming question: could we be fooled again?
Murder, Mrs. Hudson
Fresh from the triumph of their first case, Mrs. Emma Hudson and Mrs. Violet Warner are thrust into a new mystery when young Winston Churchill arrives in need of help. He asks the ladies to trail a terrorist known only as Marco, and their investigation soon takes the savvy pair into London's seedier environs and a world of peril.
The Game's Afoot, Mrs. Hudson
Staying at a charming Brighton Inn, Mrs. Emma Hudson and her dear companion Violet Warner relish the resort's colorful history, including ghosts and an unsolved jewel theft. Late one evening, the sounds of a scuffle on the floor above them lead Emma and Vi to the lifeless corpse of a fellow guest. The local authorities rule that the death was accidental, but Mrs. Hudson thinks otherwise. So the game's afoot as Emma begins a spirited investigation aided by Vi--and the resident specters.
Industrial History from the Air
This is the first book to explore the exceptional opportunities offered by aerial photography for unravelling the physical complexities and historical development of the industrial landscape of Britain. A wide range of industrial sites is illustrated - from quarries, mines and car factories to airports, railways and New Towns. The general nature and significance of their history and development is discussed while the detailed commentaries accompanying each photograph indicate the kind of historical and technical information which cannot be easily obtained in any other way. There is good geographic coverage of sites, with examples from England, Wales and Scotland, drawn from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a combination of fascinating narrative detail and imaginative presentation of photographic evidence, this book provides a unique insight into our industrial past and present.
