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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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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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Vivekananda’s journey

How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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  • A brief history of missionary enterprise in antient and modern times : Lecture memoranda, World missionary conference, Edinburgh, 1910.
  • A brief history of missionary enterprise in antient and modern times : Lecture memoranda, World missionary conference, Edinburgh, 1910.
  • Baptist Missionary Society Hospital, Yakusu, Belgian Congo
  • Canton, China: a missionary church and missionaries' houses. Photograph, 18--.
  • Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; Africans building a church. Wood-engravings.
  • London Missionary School of Medicine: a men's ward. Photograph.
  • London Missionary School of Medicine: a group of students. Photograph, 1907/1908.
  • London Missionary School of Medicine: women's medical ward or Quin ward. Photograph.
  • A missionary preaching to native Americans. Engraving by T.C Clark after Monroe.
  • David Livingstone Centenary Medal, issued by the London Missionary Society. Process print and letterpress.
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