I deal with some of his in my hopefully forthcoming article on African
students in Edinburgh. Afe Adogame has a copy.
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:38:36 +0000
"Peter B Freshwater MA, DipLib, FSA Scot"
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> I know that Brandy has been concerned with London, but many African,
>Caribbean and Asian students came also to the Scottish universities,
>especially to the medical schools at Edinburgh and Glasgow. I am
>trying to find evidence of attitudes to them especially in the City
>and at the University of Edinburgh between the two World Wars.
>
> Peter
>
> Peter B Freshwater MA, DipLib, FSA Scot
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> On 19/01/2014 19:10, Fabian Tompsett wrote:
>> Check Wikipedia:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_%28British_periodical%29
>>
>> It became a Conservative magazine and was accused of being fascist
>>in 1941.
>>
>> A.K. Chesterton was deputy editor at one stage, but that was after
>>he had
>> broken with Oswald Moseley.
>>
>> all the best
>>
>> Fabian
>>
>>
>>> Thank you for continuing this conversation! It's been so helpful.
>>>
>>> Truth was a weekly London publication founded by Henry Labouchère,
>>>an
>>> ex-member of Parliament known for his progressive, though through
>>>the
>>> modern lens, contradictory views. Labouchère, for instance, argued
>>>against
>>> the British imperial expansion and control of African and Asian
>>> populations, but also authored the British law classifying
>>>homosexuality
>>> as "gross indecency" which led to the conviction of Oscar Wilde and
>>>Alan
>>> Turing.
>>>
>>> By 1922, Labouchère was dead and the editor was Robert A. Bennett. I
>>>don't
>>> know much about him.
>>>
>>> Brandy
>>>
>>>
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