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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics

Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.

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  • The physical and moral condition of the children and young persons employed in mines and manufactures / Illustrated by extracts from the Reports of the Commissioners. For inquiring into the employment of children and young persons in mines and collieries, and in the trades and manufactures.
  • Feeding stuffs (rationing) order, 1949 / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • Feeding stuffs (rationing) order, 1949 / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • Feeding stuffs (rationing) order, 1949 / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • Feeding stuffs (rationing) order, 1949 / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • A fly; representing the danger of food poisoning through flies. Colour lithograph, 196-.
  • Members of the British National Hospital Service Reserve attending to someone who has been injured; advertising recuitment to the National Hospital Service Reserve. Colour lithograph, 1951 (?).
  • The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.
  • Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India, built using screw piles (helical piles). Wood engraving, 1863.
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