Stories
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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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.
Catalogue
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Liberating the family? : gender and British slave emancipation in the rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853 / Pamela Scully.
Scully, Pamela.Date: [1997], ©1997- Archives and manuscripts
Route Map for Travellers in South Western Africa
Date: c1853Reference: GALTON/1/3/2/5/7Part of: Galton Papers- Books
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On the cerealia of Western Africa / by W.F. Daniell.
Daniell, William F. (William Freeman), 1818-1865.Date: 1852- Books
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The sleeping sickness of Western Africa / by Albert A. Gore.
Gore, Albert A. (Albert Augustus), 1840-1901.Date: 1875- Archives and manuscripts
Offprint of "Recent Expedition into the Interior of South-Western Africa"
Date: 1852Reference: GALTON/2/11/1/8Part of: Galton Papers