Hannah Silvester

Are museums really ‘hiding’ the imperial past?

by Hannah Silvester on August 1, 2018

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In 1903, this postcard was delivered to the engineer’s office in Paddington railway station, sent by a former colleague from Cape Town. The engineers stuck it into their office scrapbook, nicknamed Enginorum, which currently lives

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