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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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  • Canton, China: a missionary church and missionaries' houses. Photograph, 18--.
  • Two missionaries gouging out the eyes of a Chinese convert. Line photoengraving, 1915.
  • Four missionaries and a child are looking at an African tribe from a distance. Drawing by H.G., 18--.
  • Four missionaries and a child are looking at an African tribe from a distance. Drawing by H.G., 18--.
  • Four missionaries and a child are looking at an African tribe from a distance. Drawing by H.G., 18--.
  • A cannibal market trader is offering the limbs of missionaries for sale as food. Drawing attributed to Edwin Harcourt Burrage, 18--.
  • Three vignettes: a group of people with leprosy, two missionaries and a leper asylum. Reproduction of a wood engraving by R.B.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • A brief history of missionary enterprise in antient and modern times : Lecture memoranda, World missionary conference, Edinburgh, 1910.
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