Is the event wheelchair accessible?

The event is held in the lower ground events room. Access is via a spiral staircase. There is no lift access to the lower ground floor.

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Thursday, September 18

Opium and the mission

By City of Westminster Libraries & Archives

Iris Yau FRSA FHEA will give a talk about one of the largely forgotten histories between Britain and China in the 19th Century

Charing Cross Library

4-6 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0HF United Kingdom

Highlights

Community • Historic

Iris will give a roughly 10 minute talk on each of the following sections.

Opium Poppy (Parpapave Somniferum - from medical to drug addiction)

The Colonial Drug Trade (British Indian Opium; Tea, Silks, Porcelains; Payment - Opium instead of Silver )
Burning illegal opium in Humen (Commissor Lin, Charles Elliot)
Treaty of Nanking (William Gladstone, Lord Palmerston)
Reading suggestions, and Q&A

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