Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents Vellum bound illustrated diary that describes Laing's journey through Great Britain (chiefly Scotland), July-September 1874 (pp. 1-32); France, Switzerland and Italy, September-December (pp. 33-144); Greece and Asia Minor, December (pp. 144-186); Egypt, December 1874-January 1875 (pp. 188-216); the Suez Canal and Palestine, January (pp. 218-270); and Egypt, 17-25 January; ending at Keneh with the note 'Continued in Vol. II' (pp. 272-286). The journey was apparently made in the company of an...

Scope and Contents The diary describes Laing's journey through Great Britain (chiefly Scotland), July-September 1874 (pp. 1-32); France, Switzerland and Italy, September-December (pp. 33-144); Greece and Asia Minor, December (pp. 144-186); Egypt, December 1874-January 1875 (pp. 188-216); the Suez Canal and Palestine, January (pp. 218-270); and Egypt, 17-25 January; ending at Keneh with the note 'Continued in Vol. II' (pp. 272-286). The journey was apparently made in the company of an American, T.E. Screven...

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247 x 196 mm. Location unidentified.

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45 x 65 mm. Showing troops at inspection. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

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274 x 212 mm. Showing a group of British soldiers posed beneath the Sphinx at Giza, with Pyramids in the background. The photograph probably dates from 1882, after the British victory of the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir.

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280 x 218 mm. A view looking along the canal with ships moored on the far bank, and a troopship steaming up the canal. The station is the cluster of bungalows, with a flagstaff, on the far bank-presumably military garrisons, or stopping-off places on the journey (descendants of Waghorn’s stations on the overland route from Cairo to Suez?)

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45 x 70 mm.

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65 x 45 mm. Showing Tymms and others stood beside a moored boat. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

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45 x 75 mm. Showing Tymms and a woman both sat on camels. A caption on the album page reads 'Cairo and Baghdad', but it is not clear the exact location of this particular image.

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60 x 80 mm. Showing a small building. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

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90 x 60 mm. Showing a large domed building with a camel train in the foreground. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

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45 x 65 mm. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.

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45 x 60 mm. Showing a large building with a dome and tower. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.

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45 x 70 mm. Showing a view of a large building, with a number of large metal drums on their sides in the street. A caption on the album page reads 'Cairo and Baghdad', but it is not clear the exact location of this particular image.

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65 x 45 mm. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.

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65 x 45 mm. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.

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85 x 60 mm. Showing three women and a young girl sat in the grass before their automobile. Location unidentified, but presumably Saqqara.

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45 x 65 mm. Showing a man stood in front of the rear end of an automobile. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

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65 x 45 mm. Showing a stone ruin with a large arch. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.

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283 x 218 mm. View looking down onto one of the locks at Ismailia. Photograph at Zangaki.

Scope and Contents 280 x 155 mm. A view looking along the bare landscape of the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes, with donkeys standing in the road in the foreground. Frith comments: 'they are situated at a distance of five or six miles from the river, at the extremity of a deep and romantic gorge in the mountains. The entire course of this ravine presents a spectacle of desolate grandeur, which is in the highest degree impressive ... There is not a blade of grass, nor a sign of life except when a...

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135 x 78 mm. A view looking across the Suez Canal at the same location as Y3041B/62 and Y3041B/61. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.

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154 x 226 mm. A view looking towards the Nile with the tower of a ruined mosque standing on the banks and balanced in the composition by two palm trees in the foreground. Frith states that there are also huts in the foreground which were: 'composed of Doura straw, and are the temporary portable homes a troupe of Gawazee, or dancing girls.'