Scope and Contents Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...

Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Reproduction of a drawing by T. Allom, engraved by W. Floyd, and published by Fisher, Son & Co., 1840.

Scope and Contents Album of photographs by various photographers inscribed 'H.M.S. Lancaster; Mediterranean Photographic Album: Diary of Events and Important Places Visited during the Commission 1910-1912' on the cover. This album was the property of Sydney Harold Liddle, whose name also appears on the front cover.There are two unnumbered plates followed by 190 prints, 140 x 97 mm numbered from 9 to 197, followed by a further unnumbered print. There is no indication as to why numbers 1-8 are not...

Scope and Contents

A collection of glass negatives, measuring 210 x 165 mm. Four reproduce plates from Edward Lear, 'Views in the Seven Ionian Islands' (London, 1863) and the other two are mid-nineteenth-century prints.

Scope and Contents

370 x 215 mm. A newspaper article attached to the back of the photograph provides details of the event which began on 1 Feb. 1866.

Scope and Contents

Printed volume with text by W.M. Thomson illustrated with photographs taken by Francis Bedford. The photographs were taken whilst Bedford accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour of the Middle East in 1862 and were published as an inexpensive alternative to Bedford (1863). The accompanying text in this volume is described as 'designedly of a popular character'.

Scope and Contents The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...

Scope and Contents

This small collection of Winifred Lamb's papers consists of ten boxes of research notebooks, newscutting books, and photographs, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s. There are also a few printed items and a card index relating to her archaeological research. Many items are undated.