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The natural history of chocolate is this term’s Featured Book, providing insight into how Europe developed a taste due to the colonisation of the Americas.

Each term a member of Library staff selects a text from ����Ӱҵ College Library’s historic collections. On this occasion, Katie Duthie (History 2022) had the task.

Katie, who graduated in July, undertook a summer internship in the Library, more of which in future. Her internship involved cataloguing the Davy Collection, 800 books which were bequeathed by former Master Martin Davy.

“It doesn’t really fit with any of the other books, because lots of them are studious medical books, theological books or classic Roman literature,” she says.

“It’s interesting in that sense, but also in a sense of how the colonisation of the Americas was perceived by someone of the day contemporarily.”

Read more about The natural history of chocolate: Chocolate - the natural history | ����Ӱҵ

The full series of Featured Books are on the Library pages of the website, as are the Library’s Online exhibitions.