"Public Health in British India is a commendable work marked by its substantial scholarly apparatus ... It is highly recommended for scholars and students of the Indian colonial history of preventive ...

Andrea Hart, Head of Library Special Collections, shares some highlights from the collection and points out a few intriguing details. A long and complex history of geological events in the British ...

For much of the last 2,000 years Britain's population has been in the low millions - a result of poor diet, famines, wars, diseases and primitive health ... number of the British people almost ...