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Under African Skies

The skies in South Africa's western cape are currently overcast, a bit drizzly, and really rather more like a Scottish summer than I...

Leaving, on a jet plane

My bags are indeed packed, and I'm as ready to go as I will ever be, having arrived in Glasgow this afternoon in anticipation of an early...

Preparations

Map in James Stewart Dawn in the Dark Continent (Edinburgh & London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1903), Univeristy of Glasgow Library...

ABOUT ME

I'm researching the visual culture of 19th Century British missionaries to southern Africa. I'll be spending a month in South Africa and Malawi, travelling around looking at artworks, illustrated publications, magic lantern slides, stained glass windows and any other images I can find.