The Empty Child in "real life"

This is the latest in a series of Doctor Who in “Real Life” posts. The idea is that I discuss how episodes work from a real world perspective. To celebrate it’s ten year anniversary, today I am looking at the two-part story The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances.

Surprisingly, a few photographs exist from Albion Hospital during the blitz of 1941.

Unfortunately there is little written evidence about what was referred to as “Empty Child Syndrome” other than this unclear sheet of medical paperwork:

More recently, UNIT published a press release about Sclechter Wolf bombs:

They’ll be another “in real life” post next week!


^{(Once again, the material from this post comes via here.)}