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- Some that got away
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- 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
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- 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
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Author Archives: Robert Bickers
Defend Wuhan!
We spotted this on Ebay, and bought it along with a small group of prints evidently taken in Wuhan during the Sino-Japanese war. They came from an album of prints that was being sold, page by page. A little research … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography
Tagged poster, Royal Navy, Sino-Japanese War, Wuhan
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‘Finding Wee Paddy’ … and finding Riflemen Mellon, Howard and Delaney
‘Finding Wee Paddy’ is a new documentary that has its first showing on 21 October at the Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast. It tells the story of the relocation of the grave of Rifleman Patrick McGowan, Royal Ulster Rifles, who was … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Image Annotation
Tagged British Army, cemeteries, Rosholt, Shanghai, Sino-Japanese War
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No Great Wall
The latest book to use one of our photographs on its cover has just arrived in the post. Felix Boecking teaches modern Chinese economic and political history at the University of Edinburgh, and his volume, which grew out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs in Books
Tagged Chefoo, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, harbour, Jinmen, Taiwan, Yantai
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New content: Hedda Morrison, Joseph Needham, Edward Bangs Drew and Claude L. Pickens Jr.
We are pleased to be able to announce today that we have successfully migrated the content from the Visualising China platform into our Historical Photographs of China site. In practical terms this means an almost 50 per cent increase in … Continue reading
Posted in About us, cross-searching, New Collections, Photographers
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New collection: Wuhan in revolution in 1911
Today we have released online a new collection of 184 photographs, the vast majority documenting events during the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Wuhan. The album of photographs was shared with us by the family of former British consular official Stanley Wyatt-Smith … Continue reading
Posted in New Collections
Tagged revolution, Wuhan
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New year … new platform: introducing www.hpcbristol.net
Today marks the launch of a new platform for ‘Historical Photographs of China’, complete with a new address, www.hpcbristol.net, an additional 1,400 images from 9 new collections, and another 4 starting to be brought online. After ten years of the current … Continue reading
Posted in About us, Design, New Collections
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Introducing the Ranjit Singh Sangha Collection
This small but evocative new collection was sent to us by Jaskaran Sangha, whose grandfather, Kartar Singh lived in Shanghai from 1920 to 1960, where he worked for the Chinese Maritime Custom Service. The set of 47 photographs includes portraits … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography, New Collections
Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Shanghai Municipal Police, Sikhs
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Introducing the Malcolm Rosholt Collection
Today we are able to unveil a significant new addition to our collections that is now available for viewing: the photographs of Malcolm Rosholt. Born in Wisconsin in 1907, Malcolm Rosholt arrived in China in 1931 with the intention of … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Photographers
Tagged camp, children, China Press, Huangpu, journalism, Pudong, river, Shanghai, war
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Found object
Some of the photographs and negatives we are presented with are beyond salvage, but it can be worth persevering. The following episode has no China connection, but perhaps indicates what might be done with any seemingly hopeless case. It is also … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Photograph of the day
Tagged negatives, old photographs
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