🇬🇧 💀 **How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists**

"_In research for my forthcoming book on skull collections, I’ve found that Cambridge’s cranial register includes a skull sent from a former student stationed in India. He had plucked it from a cremation site in Bombay despite the outrage of gathered mourners. Brazen grave-robbing and colonial violence were central to the international network that furnished British universities’ skull rooms._"

🔗 https://theconversation.com/how-the-racist-study-of-skulls-gripped-victorian-britains-scientists-262280.

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