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RECORDING THE WORLD BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHY
All interested in the work of the Commonwealth Heritage Forum should be aware of the existence of The Watercolour World (TWW) project. TWW was set up in 2019 by Fred Hohler, whose earlier project was the Public Catalogue Foundation that successfully photographed and catalogued over a quarter of a million publicly-owned oil paintings in the UK (now available online as ArtUK). TWW is a UK-registered charity that is delighted to have been awarded the joint patronage of both the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall… Find out more
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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CEMETERIES IN SOUTH ASIA
The British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA), founded in 1977, was the first organisation to address the built heritage of the British Empire in the East. Exactly thirty years after Britain’s withdrawal from the Indian subcontinent, some of BACSA’s first members were people who had lived and worked in undivided India, Burma, Malaya and Singapore. Many had long family connections with the East, going back six generations in one case. Others had siblings who had died in infancy in the 1930s and were buried in hill-station cemeteries at Shimla, Mussoorie and Murree. Read on
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