UncoverEd is a collaborative student-led archival project at the University of Edinburgh. The team works on uncovering the University’s role in the imperial project and addressing that colonial legacy.
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By Daisy Chamberlain
Phrenology emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as an “analytical science” involving the study of the shape and dimensions of the human …
Image from The Chinese Student – reproduced with permission of the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh
by Dingjian Xie
In June 1921, a group of Chinese students …
William Wright’s memoir reproduced with permission of Royal College of Physicians
by Daisy Chamberlain
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many medical graduates from …