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He was hired to take photographs and make paintings in order to create a visual record of the people, landscapes and geography of the vast empire.

The peoples of the Pacific, regarded as exotic and captivating in the eighteenth century, were increasingly imagined to be in need of civilisation as growing European empires sought to assume racial

and interactions with Maasai peoples.

Yet libraries are places for all their people and the history of the library is equally the social history of those who use it and work for it, those stationed in

standard styles of handwriting were probably used for such records by a range of people).

It notes that he was from a family of Netherlandish stationers (a word used to describe people who dealt with the various aspects of book production and sale, including printers, binders

Bartholomew captured the mood in Cambridge when he wrote in diary some two months later that “People are losing their heads about him I think,” and two years later Virginia Woolf

The Senate House as University space, the mixed crowd outside the railings, every window and rooftop packed with people.

The people thought me mad. I read myself nearly blind.’ Beckford later gave the Lausanne library to his physician Dr Frederic Schöll, who sold part of it to one John Walter

Agnes and Margaret had learned photography to produce copies of manuscripts in St Catherine’s Monastery – possibly the very first manuscript digitization project – but they also photographed scenery and people.