Tag Archives: Royal Navy

The joys of everyday life on the China Coast

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Helena F. S. Lopes

The F. Hagger collection encompasses some 260 photographs of China in the early 1930s, as well as many of Japan, Singapore, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), North Borneo, Manila, India, Egypt, and others which are not on the Historical Photographs of China … Continue reading →

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The sinking of the Chusan

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Helena F. S. Lopes

There are several photographs of disasters, including some of shipwrecks, on the Historical Photographs of China site. A collection we are in the midst of readying for publication includes several that show the aftermath of the disaster that befell the … Continue reading →

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Defend Wuhan!

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Robert Bickers

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 →

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Robert Nield on Wuzhou, old and new.

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Guest

Britain’s commercial forays into China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not always popular at the local level.  More than a hundred towns and cities, large and small, were identified as places of potentially profitable trade by … Continue reading →

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