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The Banker’s Bullet-Ridden Buick

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Andrew Hillier

Andrew Hillier explores the story behind a pair of striking photographs in our collection, and in his family’s history. The images of Guy Hillier’s bullet-ridden car would have been surprising to those who knew him only as the blind and … Continue reading →

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A round up of recent posts: internment, a church, a shipwreck, three missing Spanish diplomats, Wuhan

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Robert Bickers

This blog has hosted a fair few guest posts recently, and we have been writing our own as well. Just in case you missed them I thought I might recap a little, and flag up the fact that in the … Continue reading →

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A Banker and his Amanuensis

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Andrew Hillier

Andrew Hillier draws on the Richard Family Collection in Historical Photographs of China to evoke the moving relationship between Guy Hillier and his young amanuensis, Ella Richard. Andrew’s book, Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927, is published this … Continue reading →

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