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The Kodak comes to Peking
Dr Andrew Hillier has been looking at the unpublished letters of a British Student Interpreter, later Consul, Walter Clennell. The correspondence highlights the importance of photography to Legation life in Beijing in the late 1880s. Andrew recently completed his PhD at the University … Continue reading
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In and outside the combat zone: The Regimental Museums Project (1)
In the first of two blogs, Dr Andrew Hillier introduces a new Historical Photographs of China initiative – the Regimental Museums Project – which he is coordinating, and which will draw on photographs in regimental and national collections, to explore … Continue reading
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Tagged Archives, army, Beato, China Campaigns Project, military, museums, Royal Engineers, war
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