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- A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
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Simon Drakeford on rugby in old Shanghai
Our Guest blogger this week is Simon Drakeford, whose book about rugby in Shanghai titled It’s a Rough Game But Good Sport has just been published. More details can be found at www.treatyportsport.com Given the importance and prevalence of the numerous sports played … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Photograph of the day
Tagged Drakeford, Police, policeman, Poole, rugby, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Police, sport
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A game of two halves
Football can also bring photograph collections together. In 2008, an enigmatic album of photos collected by Harold Edwards Peck, a policeman in the Shanghai Municipal Police, was lent to the Historical Photographs of China project and digitised. Two years later, … Continue reading
Posted in cross-searching, Digitisation, Photograph of the day
Tagged ball, coincidence, colleague, football, leisure, Municipal, Peck, Police, score, serendipity, Shanghai, SMP, soccer, Sullivan
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Water music
At this impromptu creekside concert, a record is being played for an audience gathered on the bank of a waterway. One wonders what sort of music was played and what the audience thought of it. The gramophone record player is … Continue reading