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The article explains how an institution created by the Colonial Office confronts its historical and colonial legacy and reshapes archival practices to disrupt colonial narratives. It outlines the School’s colonial history and proposes decolonising principles across cataloguing, archival practice, dissemination, education, and inclusion.","Archives and Records  \nThe Journal of the Archives and Records Association  \nISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: [https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjsa21](https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjsa21)  \nDecolonising the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Archives Service  \nVictoria Cranna & Lioba Hirsch  \nTo cite this article: Victoria Cranna & Lioba Hirsch (2021) Decolonising the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Archives Service, Archives and Records, 42:3, 248-265, DOI: 10. 1080/23257962 .2021.1993806  \nTo link to this article: [https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2021.1993806](https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2021.1993806)  \n Published online: 28 Oct 2021.  \n\n|  Submit your article to this journal  |\n| --- |\n|  Article views: 360 |\n|  View related articles  |\n|  View Crossmark data |\n\nFull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at [https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=cjsa21](https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=cjsa21)  \nDecolonising the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Archives Service  \nVictoria Cranna a and Lioba Hirschb  \na Library & Archives Service, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; bDepartment of Public Health, Environments and Society, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK  \nABSTRACT  \nThis article will give an in-depth analysis of our journey in decolonizing the archives of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) which began in 2019 and is ongoing. It will give readers the opportunity to understand how an institution created by the Colonial Office is confronting its history and its colonial legacy, and how the Archives Service is changing its practices ina way that seeks to confront and disrupt the colonial narrative. This has been achieved through an overview of the colonial history of the School by a research fellow and the development of decolonizing principles covering cataloguing practice, archival practice, dissemination, education and inclusion.  \nKEYWORDS  \nDecolonization; archival practice; colonial history  \nIntroduction  \nIn this article we reflect on whether it is possible, and if so how, to ‘decolonize’ the archives of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). We argue that while the LSHTM archives cannot be fully decolonized, adopting a critical empathy and Black and postcolonial archival approach to researching and organizing an archive, can create more inclusive, open spaces, in which the colonial and racist history of the materials contained in this archive are openly acknowledged. Our reflections are based on two sets of complementary practice: that of an archivist and that of an archival researcher. Here we seek to bring these two perspectives and sets of experiences into conversation with one another to generate thoughts on how to critically engage with a colonial archive.  \nThe London School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) was founded in 1899 by Sir Patrick Manson with the object to facilitate British colonialism and white settlement through research and the treatment of tropical disease. It was established with funding from the Colonial Office. At the beginning of the School’s first teaching session in October 1899, Manson welcomed the first cohort of students with the following words:  \n‘You are welcome for many reasons, but more especially because you are the first instalment of what we hope will grow in the course of years into a numerous and important band; a band that shall not only leave its mark in the history of tropical medicine, but shall exercise an influence for good in the development of the empire’.1  \nCONTACT Victoria Cranna  [Victoria.cranna@lshtm.ac.uk](Victoria.cranna@lshtm.ac.uk)  \n© 2021 Archives and Records Association  \nARCHIVES AND RECORDS  249  \nFrom its very foundation, LSTM’s purpose was deeply entangled with the maintenance and expansion of the British Em","cbCaisvkhKEYbiEY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisvkhKEYbiEY","pdf",614983,4,1,19,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Decolonising archives\n# Case study: LSHTM Archives Service\n## Colonial origins and institutional entanglement\n## 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