Phrenology and Edinburgh
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
Image from The Chinese Student – reproduced with permission of the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh by Dingjian Xie In … Read more
Edinburgh-trained doctors on Caribbean plantations
William Wright’s memoir reproduced with permission of Royal College of Physicians by Daisy Chamberlain During the late eighteenth and early … Read more
Caribbean students in 1960s Edinburgh
Photo of Jean Besson reproduced with permission of Jean Besson By Hannah McGurk Many students recall several positive experiences of … Read more
Emmanuel Evans-Anfom – ‘To the Thirsty Land: Autobiography of a Patriot’
Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, To the Thirsty Land: Autobiography of a Patriot (Achimota, 2003), pp.98-104.
Kesaveloo Goonam – ‘The world came to Scotland!’
Primary source material reproduced from Kesaveloo Goonarathnum Naidoo, Coolie Doctor (Hyperbad, 1991)
William Besson – ‘A lot of young men, most of them in dressing gowns to keep warm’
Primary source material reproduced from William Besson, Caribbean Reflections: The Life and Times of a Trinidad Scholar, 1901-1986 (London, 1989).
The Student – ‘Students from five Edinburgh Colleges unanimously condemned discriminatory fees and immigration controls as racist measures’
J. Macdonald, ‘Government Racist’, The Student, November 1976.
The Student – ‘Edinburgh Overseas Students Action Group’
Primary source material reproduced from ‘Spelling It Out’, The Student, 02/12/1976.
The Student – ‘Accommodation Apartheid’
Primary source material reproduced from ‘Accommodation Apartheid: Allegations Denied’, The Student, 16/11/1972.
