Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
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.
![A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b1676030x_l0054013.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
Colonialism and homosexuality / Robert Aldrich.
Aldrich, Robert F.Date: 2003- Books
Colonialism's culture : anthropology, travel and government / Nicholas Thomas.
Thomas, Nicholas, 1928-Date: 1994- Books
Colonialism and psychiatry / edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Roland Littlewood.
Date: 2001- Books
- Online
Colonialism and postcolonial development : Spanish America in comparative perspective / James Mahoney.
Mahoney, James, 1968-Date: 2010- Books
Colonialism, tropical disease, and imperial medicine : Rockefeller philanthropy in Sri Lanka / Soma Hewa.
Hewa, Soma.Date: 1995
