Following our webinar on Thursday 24 September, this workshop invites you to view and explore the LSHTM Archives’ collection of colonial medical photography albums containing images of people from Sri Lanka, Cameroon and pre-partition India.

Connie Bell, project consultant from Decolonising the Archive (DTA), will be present to guide the session using trauma informed and decolonial methods, and to listen and discuss thoughts, ideas and reflections on these colonial medical photograph albums. The collective input from the session will be central in creating a restorative future for the images.

Some of the images and their annotations may be distressing for participants. Attendees are free to navigate the space, go at their own pace and take a break or leave the event whenever suits them.

People experience images differently and we ask that everyone respects each other’s space and responses.

Programme

14:30 - Arrival and welcome with an ice-breaker and grounding session led by Connie Bell (DTA).14:45–15:00 - Welcome & Overview15:00–16:30 - Photograph collection

Follow-up webinar

Attendees for this workshop will be invited to a final online webinar scheduled for Tuesday 17 November,2026 at 14:00 – 16:30 GMT. This event will be a facilitated discussion of the project where we hope to agree best practice for preserving and enabling access to these materials going forwards. The meeting invitation will be shared following the workshop.

Speakers

• Victoria Cranna, Archivist and Records Manager, LSHTM

• Connie Bell, Memory Worker and Co-founder of Decolonising the Archive (DTA)

Event notices

• Please note this event is in person only

• Please note that this session will not be recorded

Admission Free

Registration required due to catering