Médicaments, commerce et empire

Drugs, Trade & Empire 1650-1950

Symposium

Friday, 9th November 2018

Venue: Apothecaries’ Hall, Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EJ

Cost: £30 students/ members £40/non members £50

As the British Empire grew, it offered markets for the British pharmaceutical industry to explore and exploit. Medicines were developed, promoted and traded to capitalise on relationships with British colonies. Many were based on raw drugs that had themselves been imported from the colonies. There was also movement of knowledge, people and practices across the world. But what patterns did this movement take? How did relationships between Britain and its colonies play out pharmaceutically? And what was their legacy? These and other issues will be explored in this one day symposium.

Programme

9:00 Registration open/tea and coffee
Chair Ms Briony Hudson

9:45 Welcome and Introduction from the Master Apothecary

9:55 Prof Stuart Anderson
Pharmacy and Empire: People, Practice and Pharmacopoeias

10:35 Prof Mark Harrison
The Medication of India: Quinine and the Commodification of Health

11:25 Coffee and chance to see posters/displays

11:45 Prof Tilli Tansey
Selling drugs around the world: Burroughs Wellcome & Co before 1914

12:25 Dr Anna Greenwood
Boots and the networks of Empire

13:00 Lunch (not provided)

14:00 Sources from the Hall Archive:
Mr Nicholas Wood
Trade in the Dawn of Empire

Dr Anna Simmons
From Purgatives and Powders to Fulminate and Factories: The Society of Apothecaries
and Drug Supply to India

Viewing of selected items from the Apothecaries’ Archive Collection

15:00 Tea and chance to see posters/displays

15:30 Dr Kristin D.Hussey
'He came home to die': Tropical returners and British patent medicines, 1870-1914

15:50 Dr Hilary Ingram
Boots in New Zealand: Challenges to overseas expansion, 1935-1938

16:15 Panel discussion/conclusions

16:30  Networking with drinks

18:00 Depart