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Recent Posts
- Guest blog: Andrew Hillier on Armistice Day and its Aftermath in Treaty Port China
- Guest blog: Kaori Abe on the Abe Naoko Collection –– a glimpse of a Japanese family’s life in Shanghai, c.1927-c.1934
- Guest blog: Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
- Guest blog: Helena Lopes on A connected place: Macau in the Second World War
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking Part 2
- Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking
- Need and opportunity: the new HPC website
- Everything’s changed, but everything’s still the same: HPC update
- Location/Dislocation – Admiral Keppel, the Chinese Buddha at Sandringham and three key photographs
- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
- A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
- ‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
- Charles Frederick Moore’s photographs of the ruins of the European-style palaces (西洋楼) at the Yuanmingyuan (圆明园)
- Pieces of China in Bristol – cataloguing Historical Photographs of China material
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Category Archives: Photographers
Chess in Canton
The Wellcome Institute announced recently that all historical images that are out of copyright and held by Wellcome Images are being made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. Search for, download and study images by, for example, John … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere on the net, Exhibition, Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged Buddhist, Canton, chess, monk, Thomson, Wellcome
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Isabella Lucy Bird – photographer and traveller
Mrs Isabella Lucy Bishop (née Bird), FRGS (1831-1904), was a remarkable traveller, writer, photographer, horsewoman and natural historian. In 1892, she became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society and she was elected to membership of the Royal Photographic Society … Continue reading
Posted in cross-searching, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged author, bird, CIM, hospital, Isabella, Paoning, photographer
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Darwent Revisited: Shanghai now and then
Photography is the context, subtext and pretext for an exhibition that opens today. The exhibition includes new photographs by Jamie Carstairs inspired by the text of Shanghai: A Handbook for Travellers and Residents, a guidebook to the city by Revd. … Continue reading
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Tagged Darwent, exhibition, photography, Shanghai
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Who took the photograph, reprised?
BL-n087 is a photograph of a photographer taking a photograph. You may be able to identify the photographer at work, if you recognise the photograph he probably took here: a scene including a human corpse and battle debris – the … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Boxer, camera, Killie, photographer, photography, Ricalton, tripod, Uprising
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Who took the photographs?
Our collections are generally identified with a single individual, in most cases the woman or man who lived and worked in China, and who provides the current owner’s family link to China. In some cases we can certainly state with … Continue reading
Introducing two new photographers
The ‘Historical Photographs of China’ team was very pleased to be invited by the Arts & Humanities Research Council to contribute a set of images to its recently launched Online Gallery. We decided to use the opportunity to showcase a … Continue reading
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E is for … ebay (and eouch)
For a change this post is about photographs that have been lost. A recent sale on Ebay of some materials found during a house clearance in southwestern England, left traces online of what seems to be a historically interesting voyage … Continue reading
Posted in Alphabet China, Elsewhere on the net, Photographers
Tagged Navy, ships, Taiwan
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Mid-day meal at a street food kitchen, Peking, 1915-1920
The Historical Photographs of China project was recently kindly given a copy of ‘The Pageant of Peking’. Published in Shanghai in 1920 and bound in exquisite gold blocked turquoise silk, this coffee (or tea) table book is introduced by Putnam … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged Admiral, advertisement, Ballard, Beijing, carrier, cook, eat, food, lunch, Mennie, pedlar, Peking, people, photogravure, pictorialism, steam
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Revisiting Darwent's Shanghai
Our pop-up exhibition, ‘Darwent Revisited: Shanghai now and then’, is unveiled on Saturday 9th February, at the Bristol City Museum, and then on Sunday 10th February at the city’s new M-Shed museum. Funded by the AHRC and the British Academy, It … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Photographers, Visualisation
Tagged Bristol, Carstairs, Chinese, Darwent, exhibition, New, photograph, photography, Revisited, Year
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Sailing on
We have been on our holidays, but were also overwhelmed by correspondence resulting from July’s BBC Radio 4 documentary about the project, ‘Old Photographs Fever‘, and the accompanying BBC News slideshow. Many wonderful new collections were offered to us, and … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere on the net, Photographers
Tagged children, photography, portrait, Shanghai, studio, Update
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