Screenshot of Wen Zhang's article in the collection profiles section of 'Paper Trails: The Social Life of Archives and Collections' (published by UCL Press). The article includes illustrations from the textbook showing racialised portrayals of Chinese people and narratives of British superiority.

Great to Wen Zhang's article “They Are ‘Bad’, ‘Barbaric’ and ‘Different’: The Construction of #Chinese Otherness”publishd in 'Paper Trails'. It uses the 'Harmsworth History of the World' from the @ioelibrary.bsky.social #HistoricalTextbooks #SpecColl. ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article... #HistEd

Image of a map from a historical textbook (1914) showing the map of the ‘Dominion of Canada’

It’s been a pleasure to have had Pia Russell, @UCL’s 2023 ‘Liberating the Collection’ fellow, work on the @IOELibrary’s #historicaltextbooks collection. Read about her work on #decolonisingthecurriculum @UCLSpecColl’s blog blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #academicsky #edusky #textbookresearch