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Posted on August 9, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

Empire Explored!

by Nicky Sugar, Archivist In August 2015, Nicky Sugar from Bristol Archives shared her first impressions of the British Empire and Commonwealth Collections. Two years – and tens of thousands of photographs – later, she returns to share how the Exp…

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

Building the Railways: a brief look at the Crown Agents photograph collection

By Jayne Pucknell, Archivist The British Empire and Commonwealth Collection at Bristol Archives includes fascinating archives relating to railways. One large photographic collection that we have recently catalogued was created by the Crown Agents (ref…

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

Fanning the Flame Trees: uncovering the photographs of Elspeth Huxley at Bristol Archives

by Nicky Sugar, Bristol Archives One of the gems in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection is the photographic archive of the writer and broadcaster Elspeth Huxley. With nearly 12,000 images, it is the largest collection we’ve catalogued since t…

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

An anthropologist in Africa: photographs by Dr Malcolm Ruel revisit Kenya

By Jayne Pucknell, archivist at Bristol Archives Among the archives in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection, we found an intriguing group of papers and images by the anthropologist Dr Malcolm Ruel. These document his work in West and East A…

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

How to solve a problem like BECM?

By Hannah Myall, MA Heritage Management, Bath Spa University I’ve been at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery for the last few months on a student placement with the World Cultures team. I’m working on the British Empire & Commonwealth Col…

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Films of India in the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection

By Jayne Pucknell and Nicky Sugar, archivists at Bristol Archives Some amazing films from the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum are now in the care of Bristol Archives. In our last blog post, we talked about starting to catalogue the collect…

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Update: Photographs and films in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection

By Nicky Sugar and Jayne Pucknell, archivists at Bristol Archives. We introduced ourselves last summer as the project archivists working on photographs and films from the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. During that time, we’ve made consi…

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Fay Curtis.

Exploring Empire: the photographic collections of the former British Empire & Commonwealth Museum

A new project at Bristol Archives will open up an internationally-important collection of colonial photographs for research and learning.

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