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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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When the sun goes down

Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.

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The child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics

Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.

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  • Report on the cattle plague in Great Britain during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 : with appendix, tables, and diagrams showing the progress of the disease / prepared by the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council Office.
  • League of Nations' course for overseas health officers, Great Britain, February to April 1924: group portrait of attendees on the steps of the Palace of Nations, Geneva. Photograph, 1924.
  • How to be a responsible dog owner / Department of the Environment in association with the Pet Advisory Committee.
  • How to be a responsible dog owner / Department of the Environment in association with the Pet Advisory Committee.
  • How to be a responsible dog owner / Department of the Environment in association with the Pet Advisory Committee.
  • How to be a responsible dog owner / Department of the Environment in association with the Pet Advisory Committee.
  • Constant barking can be avoided : here are some helpful tips / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office, Scottish Office.
  • Constant barking can be avoided : here are some helpful tips / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office, Scottish Office.
  • Railway warrant for the use only of officers, ladies of Q.A.I. military nursing service, and the families of officers enumerated in paragraph 339, allowance regulations, travelling on duty without troops in the United Kingdom / War Office.
  • Railway warrant for the use only of officers, ladies of Q.A.I. military nursing service, and the families of officers enumerated in paragraph 339, allowance regulations, travelling on duty without troops in the United Kingdom / War Office.
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