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Phrenology and Edinburgh

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Combe - The Constitution of Man

By Daisy Chamberlain Phrenology emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as an “analytical science” involving the study of the … Read more

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“A permanent record of our collective activities”: The Chinese Student and the Edinburgh Chinese Students’ Union

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Group photo of Edinburgh Chinese Students Union 1921-22

Image from The Chinese Student – reproduced with permission of the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh by Dingjian Xie In … Read more

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Edinburgh-trained doctors on Caribbean plantations

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William Wright's memoir

William Wright’s memoir reproduced with permission of Royal College of Physicians by Daisy Chamberlain During the late eighteenth and early … Read more

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Caribbean students in 1960s Edinburgh

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Jean Besson

Photo of Jean Besson reproduced with permission of Jean Besson By Hannah McGurk Many students recall several positive experiences of … Read more

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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom – ‘To the Thirsty Land: Autobiography of a Patriot’

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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, To the Thirsty Land: Autobiography of a Patriot (Achimota, 2003), pp.98-104.

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Kesaveloo Goonam – ‘The world came to Scotland!’

20211991

Primary source material reproduced from Kesaveloo Goonarathnum Naidoo, Coolie Doctor (Hyperbad, 1991)

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William Besson – ‘A lot of young men, most of them in dressing gowns to keep warm’

20211989

Primary source material reproduced from William Besson, Caribbean Reflections: The Life and Times of a Trinidad Scholar, 1901-1986 (London, 1989).

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The Student – ‘Students from five Edinburgh Colleges unanimously condemned discriminatory fees and immigration controls as racist measures’

20211976

J. Macdonald, ‘Government Racist’, The Student, November 1976.

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The Student – ‘Edinburgh Overseas Students Action Group’

20211976

Primary source material reproduced from ‘Spelling It Out’, The Student, 02/12/1976.

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The Student – ‘Accommodation Apartheid’

20211972

Primary source material reproduced from ‘Accommodation Apartheid: Allegations Denied’, The Student, 16/11/1972.

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