Stories
- 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.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report on Brunei / Colonial Office.
Date: 1948-1953- Journals
Annual report on Northern Rhodesia / Colonial Office.
Date: 1948-- Journals
Annual report on Basutoland / Colonial Office.
Date: [1947?]-- Journals
Annual report on the Gold Coast / Colonial Office.
Date: 1948-- Journals
Annual report on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies / Colonial Office.
Date: 1948-