Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Photo story
‘My Hair Is Not…’
Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
First-[second] report of the Royal Sanitary Commission.
Great Britain. Royal Sanitary Commission.Date: 1869-1874- Books
- Online
Index to the Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Poor Law Relief.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Poor Law Relief.Date: 1888- Books
Acid : a new secret history of LSD / David Black.
Black, DavidDate: 2001- Ephemera
FAST : when stroke strikes, act F.A.S.T. : [black man] / NHS.
Date: [2010]- Ephemera
FAST : when stroke strikes, act F.A.S.T. : [black woman] / NHS.
Date: [2010]