Before the 1980s, the powerful link between empire and race was marginalised in British imperial history. The postcolonial 'turn' opened up new ways of exploring racial constructions of colonised subjects and stimulated debate over the extent to which representations of the colonised in colonial discourse underpinned imperial power. In Race and Empire, based on an AHRB/C-funded research project...

In the British Medical Journal of Aug. 14, 1943 (p. 203), Prof. Bogomoletz published an article in which he claimed that he had produced a serum the use of which caused considerable amelioration both of symptoms and of pathological tissue changes in " rheumatism." The Empire Rheumatism Council invited Prof. Bogomoletz to send some of this serum to this country in order that it might be tested u...