• A lightly coloured map showing the town of Quebec in the seventeenth century and areas surrounding it on the Saint Lawrence River

Xenophon’s Anabasis in 16 Pictures

This selection of sixteen photographs together with the accompanying descriptions by Xenophon aim to provide a sense of the travel experience from the journey’s beginning at Sardis to the army’s famous sighting of the Black Sea from the mountains south of modern Trabzon.

John Cura: Pioneer of the Television Archive

By Richard Wallace The work of John Cura is a fascinating side-note in the history of British television. Between 1947 and 1968 Cura made a successful business from photographing the BBC and ITV programmes broadcast to his television set and…