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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching

The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.

  • In pictures

Hookah smoking in colonial Calcutta

Hookah smoking began in the royal courts of Mughal India, and like many other local customs, it was readily adopted by British colonials in the 18th century as a symbol of wealth and status.

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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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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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  • Minutes of the Colonial Commissions Committee
  • Home and Colonial Training College, London. Etching.
  • The new Home and Colonial Offices, Westminster, 1875.
  • Colonial Hospital, Port of Spain, Trinidad: exterior. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Letter to Sun Yat Sen from Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong,
  • Letter to Sun Yat Sen from Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong
  • Colonial Studies, expeditions and drugs. Copy prepared by Dr. F. Guerra.
  • The British and colonial druggist.
  • The British and colonial druggist.
  • Volvox (colonial freshwater alga) SEM
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The Visual Regime of Medicine in Late Colonial India

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  • Symposium

Decolonising Health

Henry Wellcome Auditorium
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  • Discussion

In Conversation with Grace Ndiritu

The Forum
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  • Speech-to-text
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