Stories
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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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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Illustrations of Indian botany / by Robert Wight.
Date: 1840- Books
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Assistant plates to the materia medica ; or, figures of such plants and animals as are used in medicine : adapted to the most celebrated treatises on the materia medica / by William Curtis.
Curtis William, 1746-1799.Date: 1786- Books
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Hortus medicus, or figures and descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, or possessed of poisonous qualities; with their medical properties, chemical analysis, &c. &c. ... The chemical and medical departments by John Davie Morries / by George Graves.
Date: 1834- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 22
Date: September 1904 - March 1906Reference: WF/E/03/22Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms, by James Sowerby, F. L. S. Designer of English Botany, etc. ... . - Tab. I. - Cxx.
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]