Stories
- Article
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.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
- Article
Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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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
"European Economic Community"
Date: 1994-1995Reference: ART/AFH/A/5/4Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
European Economic Community
Date: 1983Reference: SA/TIH/B/2/94Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations- Archives and manuscripts
European Economic Community
Date: 1967-1976Reference: SA/MWF/F.8Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
European Economic Community (EEC)
Date: 1989-1992Reference: SB/4/1/134Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Books
Opinion on the fourth framework programme of the European Economic Community activities in the field of research, technological development and demonstration (1994 to 1998) / European Communities Economic and Social Committee.
Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities.Date: 1993