Tracey Logan learns how a synthetic purple dye broke down class boundaries. Read more
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Perkin's Purple
Tracey Logan learns how a synthetic purple dye broke down class boundaries.
Colour Vision
Tracey finds out how our bodies create colour and sees the world through colour-blind eyes
Colour Naming
Tracey Logan explores how language changes our colour perception.
Feeling Colour
Does colour change the way we feel and behave? Tracey Logan investigates.
Making Colour
Tracey Logan visits a traditional dye house in Leeds to see how they create colour.
Selling Colour
Tracey Logan discovers how the colour forecasting industry arose out of World War I.