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British witnesses to the destruction of the Emporer's Summe Palace remembered the gardens, not the architecture, which were reminiscent of the English landscape gardens of William Kent, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.

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A treat for Burns night. Two poems by Eliza Ogilvy, one on the meaning & making of the tradition Burns represents, written for the 1859 centenary poetry competition, the other a rage against the competition itself, written 3 weeks before the winner was announced 🤔 open.substack.com/pub/eaho/p/p...

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A treat for Burns night. Two poems by Eliza Ogilvy, one on the meaning & making of the tradition Burns represents, written for the 1859 centenary poetry competition, the other a rage against the competition itself, written 3 weeks before the winner was announced 🤔 open.substack.com/pub/eaho/p/p...

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"Pocock was paradoxically under attack for being too liberal, but also for not being liberal enough.Said differently, Pocock was criticised for being too American and for not being American enough –all the more intriguing for a New Zealander" Read my article on JGA Pocock below! tinyurl.com/xtv3maav

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The Second Opium War of 1856-60 was one of the first to be photographed (the Mexican-US war in 1847 was the first, then Crimea). Today Felice Beato’s images are a powerful reminder of the terrible destruction wrought on the Taku forts east of Beijing by the British Armstrong guns.

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The Second Opium War is one of the hidden histories of the British Empire, involving a cultural crime of immense proportions that has been excised from the curriculum - the total destruction of the Yuanmingyan, the garden of perfect clarity. eaho.substack.com/p/14-looting....

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The Second Opium War is one of the hidden histories of the British Empire, involving a cultural crime of immense proportions that has been excised from the curriculum - the total destruction of the Yuanmingyan, the garden of perfect clarity. eaho.substack.com/p/14-looting....

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It’s interesting that Rogers writes about the positive bias in innovation research. The research is premised on innovation being a good thing. You see this in the classic categories - ‘early adopters’, ‘laggards’. The former are brave, curious, savvy, the latter stubborn, etc. 1/n

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For new followers: Eliza Ogilvy (née Dick) was a Victorian Scottish poet, a member of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Florence network, and also the Sydenham set: the group of artists, writers, engineers, musicians & scientists organised around the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in the 1850s and ’60s.

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Season 1 of Winds of Change is almost here! From the East India Company to the "Mutiny" of 1857, through the World Wars, to Independence and Partition, Winds of Change will cover the whole history of the Indian freedom struggle. Full episodes from 18th November. www.langnessmedia.com/windsofchange

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For new followers: Eliza Ogilvy (née Dick) was a Victorian Scottish poet, a member of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Florence network, and also the Sydenham set: the group of artists, writers, engineers, musicians & scientists organised around the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in the 1850s and ’60s.

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William Prinsep’s voyage from Singapore to Canton in 1838 was ostensibly to take news of London silk prices to Lancelot Dent. However on arrival his activities focused on learning the secrets of tea: how it was cultivated, processed and prepared for consumption. 1/4

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Just published: Chapter 9 of Eliza Ogilvy's Commonplace Book is Missing, on William Prinsep's voyage from Singapore to Canton in 1838: a tale of espionage, opium smuggling, tea stealing and a tense meeting with his painting master Geo. Chinnery eaho.substack.com/p/9-william-...

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Just published: Chapter 9 of Eliza Ogilvy's Commonplace Book is Missing, on William Prinsep's voyage from Singapore to Canton in 1838: a tale of espionage, opium smuggling, tea stealing and a tense meeting with his painting master Geo. Chinnery eaho.substack.com/p/9-william-...

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October 1838: In Macao with the artist George Chinnery "[William] Jardine was sitting for his portrait but I observed that though his pencil was as true for design as ever, his painting had certainly gone off."

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"My first impressions on landing [in Canton/Guangzhou] - What strange figures! what novelty! What entire and complete difference in the form & feature of everything ...The very colour of the atmosphere seemed to be different from that of any part of the world I had ever seen,

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1.10 "Embarked at 2pm from Singapore harbour with Capt Reynell in the Water Witch a charming yacht-like vessel of about 360 tons rigged especially for fast sailing & armed with 5 guns as defence against the pirates of the China Seas, manned by lascars & Manilla men with European officers and mates.

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30 Sept 1938: "Our opium clipper the Water Witch arrived from Calcutta bringing me ample dispatches from my friend W. Carr with favourable reports on the progress of our business and the probable importance of some dispatches Capt Reynell has to carry on to Dent’s house in China."

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1/2 I'll be quoting from William Prinsep's memoirs this week, starting on New Year's Day 1839 "I find in my Diary notice of a large...family dinner party at Charles’ house the chief amusement of which being the fun that Thoby and others made of Macaulay’s new code" eaho.substack.com/p/6-the-mach...

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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. Tell Everyone www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

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Dr William Dick and the art world in Regency London. New research, strange coincidences, the dark gift of calomel to sickening artists and aristocratic patrons: open.substack.com/pub/eaho/p/r...

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Hello and welcome to new followers. There are two good places to start investigating the world of Eliza Ogilvy's commonplace book: one is the introduction to her work, world and network in the long 19th Century eaho.substack.com/p/introducin... ... and ...

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PS. If you haven't read it yet, start with Chapter 6, The Machine in the Garden: Government House in Madras, a model for European iron and glass structures; the shift in trade and taste between Europe & India in the 1830s; William Prinsep's genius for invention eaho.substack.com/p/6-the-mach...

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Just published, a tricky chapter on Macaulay's Indian Penal Code/Black Act, Dwarkanath Tagore's unlikely alliance with non-official settlers against it, and his row with Abercromby Dick (Eliza Ogilvy's father) in the pages of The Englishman eaho.substack.com/p/7-strange-...

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Archival discovery at NLS: an illustration by W.M.Thackeray found in a letter of Jan 1847 to William Edmondstoune Aytoun. It reads: “As I was walking in just now I met this fellow singing ‘I dreamed I had dwelt in marble halls’ driving a dustcart. I burst out laughing and so did he'. It continues...

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