The Informal Imperialist HC25 Starting with an early picture

Starting with an early picture of a gang of badass gold prospectors who put this beautiful Northern California city on the map

When we’re too stuck in our heads we obsess over our inadequacies

The Three Kingdoms are at war

shifts in media

and pleased to have learnt so much in the process

The Informal Imperialist HC25 Starting with an early pictureDr. Clement Williams was a British army surgeon, political agent, and businessman who gained unparalleled access to the court of King Mindon, the great ruler of Mandalay, between 1861 and his premature death in 1873. Williams official diaries, his legal disputes, his commercial contracts, his travel book, and (most of all) his extraordinarily rare photographs offer a unique portrait of an ancient civilisation on the cusp of industrial, technological,