Weekend Link Dump: Star forts, Hollywood fixers, Maya Snake Kings, time-traveling tombs, shrewd rascals, medieval dog names & more!

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Assistance provided by India Office for Gholam Hosain, a native of Lahore, stranded in Italy in 1879.
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Why was Gholam Hosain, a native of Lahore, stranded in Italy in 1879?
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New post! The case of Gholam Hosain, a native of the Indian city of Lahore, who was stranded in Italy in 1879 and needed help to return home.
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Norfolk Island proposed as a British settlement for the cultivation of the flax plant and its manufacture into cordage. New post from Karen Stapley.
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1785 plan to establish a settlement on one of the smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean for the cultivation of the flax plant and its manufacture into cordage, as well as the supply of masts for shipping. Norfolk Island was suggested as a location.
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Weekend Link Dump: Oakville Blobs, bird brains, celebrity courtesans, giant skeletons, feuding lawyers, alien abductions, Japan’s nine-tailed fox & more!

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A settlement in the Pacific Ocean for growing flax - proposal made to the East India Company in 1785.
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Re-evaluating the status of prints British Library - fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 Oct 2024 to research provenance, changing status and visibility of about 500 books of prints. Great opportunity to work with BL Prints & Drawings.
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Re-Evaluating the Status of Prints at the British Library - fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2024.
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Fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2024 - a project to identify and research the provenance, changing status and visibility of about 500 books of prints British Library.
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Weekend Link Dump: UFO abductions, poison pen letters, killer eclipses, Vermont monsters, the Dragon of Parliament & more!

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Family papers documenting the lives of Hugh Trowbridge Keeling (1865-1955), Chief Engineer to New Delhi, and Colonel Thomas Ormsby Underwood (1839-1916).
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Papers of Sir Hugh Keeling and Colonel Thomas Ormsby Underwood British Library.
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Weekend Link Dump: Welsh witches, funeral Mutes, female executioners, lizard cities, disinherited cats, elephant orchestras & more!

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On 2 July 1862 Mary Carpenter wrote to Emily Faithfull to congratulate her on being appointed the Queen’s Publisher.
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How a letter between two 19th-century women can provide a glimmer of light into their personal lives.
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Just posted! A letter between female activists Mary Carpenter and Emily Faithfull.
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Weekend Link Dump: Turkish cats, swooning knights, newsworthy dogs, Smithfield slang, Lester the police horse & more!

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In 1899 the Royal Humane Society awarded a bronze medal and certificate to Charles Deefholts for his ‘gallantry’ in rescuing a Burmese woman called Ma Sein from drowning in the Irrawaddy River.
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