Captain of the 11
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
George Calderon c.1901
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
George Calderon, 1912
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
George and Kittie Calderon 1905Recent Comments
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Guest post by Philip Andrews-Speed: The concept of path dependence explains much in today’s world
The topic of path dependence arose in email exchanges I had recently with Patrick Miles concerning the current state of Russia and China. In my studies of energy governance in China, I have had to dig deep into the nation’s … Continue reading →