Showing posts with label British Empire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Empire. Show all posts
Monday, February 4, 2013

The condominium

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One of the most bizarre consequences of the Entente Cordiale of 1904, that set of friendly agreements between France and Britain mostly re...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

The Political Agent

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Old Dubai I have been reading Parting Shots , an anthology of extraordinarily entertaining extracts from British diplomats’ valedic...
Friday, May 11, 2012

The India List and India Office List

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Naturally my copy of The Colonial Office List for 1911 is fairly useless without having close to hand that same year’s edition of The India...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Further Colonial Office List

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The 1911 Colonial Office List contains an immense volume of information relating to all aspects of the administration of every ...

The Colonial Office List again

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The cost of publishing The Colonial Office List was partly offset by advertising, and many of the ads were geared towards the ex...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The Colonial Office List

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One of my favourite books is the 1911 edition of The Colonial Office List , that annual compendium of useful information pertain...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

London 2

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This week, whilst kicking my heels in London, I chanced upon a gem of a book in a remote corner of Hatchard’s of Piccadilly. It is an anth...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

The Joy of Crockford's Clerical Directory

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Among diversions there is none more harmless than scanning from time to time that vast repository of Imperial and Church of England arcana, ...