Search Results for "Royal African Company"
The lewdest Fellow of the age?
history of scienceEleanor Stephenson dissects the life of John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery, President of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ from 1686 to 1689 and a man described by his enemies as 'half way to hell’ and ‘as ugly in face as in fame’.
West African medical knowledge, the slave trade and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ
history of scienceDr Carolyn Roberts of Yale University, currently writing her first book 'To heal and to harm: medicine, knowledge, and power in the British slave trade', discusses some key documents in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's archives.