Stories
- Article
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.
- In pictures
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.
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Colony Picker
Date: February 1990-March 1992Reference: PP/SUL/A/4/3Part of: John Sulston: archives- Archives and manuscripts
Colony of Gheel
Date: 1935Reference: PENROSE/2/5/7/11Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Colony Committee
Date: Mar 1937-Oct 1945Reference: SA/NPT/A/3/6Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Journals
Colony of North Borneo annual report.
Date: 1953-
- Books
- Online
Colony of North Borneo annual report.
North Borneo.Date: [1962]
