In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitized recently by the society and the British Film
New Footage Reveals the British Empire’s Hidden Workings in India and Iran
A newly released trove of films sheds new light on aspects of the British Empire’s imperial science, administration and colonial travel through India and Iran.

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Jonathan Westaway
Jonathan Westaway is a Research Fellow in History at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom.