Letter from Polly Bence

We have received a letter from Polly Bence, a PhD student researching the ethnographic collections at Bristol Museum where they hold a group of objects collected by Admiral Francis Starkie Clayton, she is looking for anything that might shed light on his motivations for collecting.

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It happened fifty years ago

We are grateful to Kristen Fehlhaber who has reached out to us about the occasion when John Locke Marx thought he had sunk a German U boat on January 12th, 1917. Kristen has translated an account of the incident given by Heinz Ziemer, the Commander of the U-boat, and held…

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