Stories
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
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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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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.
Catalogue
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The Victorian Government prize essays, 1860.
Date: 1861- Books
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Vancouver Island : its resources and capabilities, as a colony / by Charles Forbes.
Forbes, Charles.Date: 1862- Books
Nature in the global south : environmental projects in South and Southeast Asia / Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, editors.
Date: 2003- Archives and manuscripts
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Braddon, William Leonard (1861-1935)
William Leonard BraddonDate: 1910-1927Reference: MS.8589- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL