A collection of C19th photographic portraits of Black African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and mixed heritage people. This feat of curation brings together plate negatives, stereoscopic images, visiting cards, studio photographs etc from public and private archives, to take a long look at questions of race and representation. The quality of the reproductions is very high.
Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain
£50.00
Edition:Hardback978050002661829/04/2025From a Bookshelf nearby
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RC is a distinguished British diplomat (and author). In this incisive historical analysis, he considers where problems, personalities and ideas meet.
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The author is a distinguished historian; as professor of British history at Stanford, she has a commanding view of the Empire and its changing narratives. Original and well-informed.
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Bracing, perhaps, to be reminded that people lived through crises before. This is a fine account of a tense moment.

