Stories
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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.
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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.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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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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Colonies of E. coli bacteria, LM
I. Nuñez I. Del Valle, T. Matute and Fernán Federici- Archives and manuscripts
`Colonies' Presscuttings about recovery of former German colonies, 1937
Date: 1937Reference: PP/BOW/K.1/5Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Books
Colonies, cults and evolution : literature, science and culture in nineteenth-century writing / David Amigoni.
Amigoni, David.Date: 2007- Archives and manuscripts
'Colonies of Penicillium notatum and other moulds as models for the study of population genetics,' by Guido Pontecorvo and Dr A R Gemmell in Nature,Vol 154, p532
Date: 28 Oct 1944Reference: UGC 198/7/2/18Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
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Standing Committee on Colonial and Crown Colonies Appointments
Date: 1932-1935Reference: SA/MWF/D.12/1/1Part of: Medical Women's Federation