On Thursday 27 September we welcomed two visitors from India to Special Collections, Devang Vibhakar, a publisher, and Mirani Patel, a journalist, both part of a Group Study Exchange scheme from Gujurat, organised by the Rotary Club of Kelvin. Niki… Read More ›
On 11 September, the second week into my new post as International Heritage Project Support Officer, the University of Glasgow received a delegation of Chinese medical and public health academics from Sun Yat-sen University led by its Vice-President, Professor Guangmei… Read More ›
A new set of images, showing Japan and China in the 1890s, is now online. Dougan 86 is an intriguing mix of professional photographs and amateur snapshots. Despite the technical flaws and haphazard composition of some of the images, they are an appealing, immediate record of… Read More ›
The latest 19th century photograph album to be digitised and made available online is Dougan 96. Most of the 175 photographs are the work of Samuel Bourne (1834-1912), who was based in India in the 1860s as part of the… Read More ›
