Scope and Contents Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...

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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 Subjects include: Churchill's visit to Italy, August 1944; viewing the front off the south coast of France ['Operation Anvil']; differences between the Americans and British over strategy; the rude response by General Charles de Gaulle [President of Provisional Government of the French Republic and Head Chief of Armies] to Churchill's suggestion of a meeting and Churchill's view that Gaullist France would be hostile to Britain; meetings with Josip Tito [Marshal of Yugoslavia]; Allied...

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45 x 70 mm. A view from the deck of the ship looking out along the Corinth Canal.

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Reproduction of a mid-nineteenth-century print.

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151 x 202 mm. Sitting behind the cards bearing the names of their respective countries are the heads of the delegations: British Foreign Secretary Mr. Harold Macmillan (left side of picture); Greek Foreign Minister, Mr. Stephan Stephanopoulos (wearing spectacles, at right of picture) and Turkish Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Fatin Ruftu Zorlu (at front, back to camera).

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80 x 115 mm.

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45 x 70 mm. A general view.

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85 x 140 mm. A view of the columns forming the Temple of Jupiter.

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125 x 80 mm.

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135 x 85 mm.

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This is reproduced from No. 20 of Edward Lear, 'Views in the Seven Ionian Islands' (London, 1863).

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152 x 202 mm. Archbishop Makarios waves as he leaves Lancaster House, London, after the Cyprus agreement had been signed.

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151 x 202 mm. Archbishop Makarios is seen at the opening of the Cyprus conference at Lancaster House, London.

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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'.

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152 x 202 mm. Left to right are: Mr. Fatin Ruftu Zorlu, Turkish Minister of State and Foreign Affairs; Mr. Harold Macmillan, British Foreign Secretary; and Mr. Stephan Stephanopoulos, the Greek Foreign Minister.

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125 x 80 mm.

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70 x 40 mm.

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151 x 202 mm. The Greek Foreign Minister, Mr. Evangelos Averoff, is seen leaving Lancaster House after the signing in London of the Cyprus agreement.

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151 x 202 mm. The Turkish Ambassador, Mr. Nuri Birgi sits at the centre with the Foreign Minister, Mr. Fatin Zorlu next to him at right.

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This is reproduced from No. 8 of Edward Lear, 'Views in the Seven Ionian Islands' (London, 1863).

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70 x 40 mm. Perhaps the Theatre of Bacchus.

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70 x 40 mm. A view of the seats (from below), many of which have become overgrown.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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...