cartes de visite

Victoria R: the “first media monarch” of modern Britain

14 September 2017
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Photographic Collection, St Andrews Photography Festival

The Library’s Special Collections has recently acquired ten cartes de visite depicting members of the British royal family in the 1860s. Queen Victoria and Prince… Read More »Victoria R: the “first media monarch” of modern Britain

Reading the Collections, Week 9: Cartes de Visite

2 April 2015
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Photographic Collection, Reading the Collections

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. So, famously, begins The go-between by L.P. Hartley. I was a visitor to that foreign country… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 9: Cartes de Visite

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