Stories
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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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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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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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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Data collection
Date: 1980-1982Reference: SA/CAP/E/4Part of: Child Accident Prevention Trust- Books
Data collection user guide : how to input, manage and submit data for the RAE.
Date: 2007- Archives and manuscripts
"Data Protection Act"
Date: September 1996-April 2002Reference: WT/B/2/5/2/3Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Cunard: Data Collection 1
Date: 1987Reference: SA/TIH/B/2/84/2/7/2Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations- Archives and manuscripts
Sealink: Data Collection 1
Date: 1987Reference: SA/TIH/B/2/84/2/7/8Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations