Metadata: Crusader Castles (file)
File
- Title:
- Crusader Castles
- Collection:
- Crusader castles and desert warfare: T E Lawrence's photographs in the Liddell Hart Collection
- Archive reference:
- LIDDELL HART 9/13/71
- Catalogue record URL (AtoM):
- https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/liddell-hart-9-13-71
- Level of description:
- subseries
- Date of material:
- 1907-1911
- Creator:
- Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry
- Source collection title:
- Collection LIDDELL HART - LIDDELL HART, Capt Sir Basil Henry (1895-1970)
- Extent:
- 153 black and white photographs
- Description (scope):
- Photographs relating to T E Lawrence, including his photographs of crusader castles in France, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.
- Archival history and notes:
- Duplicate sets of T E Lawrence's photographs are held in several repositories. The Society of Antiquaries holds prints of Crusader castle photographs. Captions on the backs of other photographs are in Liddell Hart's handwriting unless described otherwise. Crusader castle photographs have been dated as far as possible with reference to "Crusader Castles" by T E Lawrence (London, Folio Society, 1936, 2010).
- Copyright:
- Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
- King's College London Archives
Photograph
- Title:
- Photograph of Rumkale castle and the River Euphrates, Turkey
- Archive reference:
- LIDDELL HART 9/13/71
- Catalogue record URL (AtoM):
- https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/liddell-hart-9-13
- Date of material:
- 1911
- Description:
- Photograph of Rumkale castle (also Rum Kalaat, Qal'at al Rum, Urumgala), Turkey, viewed from high up across the River Euphrates. Three copies, all captioned 'Rum Kalaat', two also captioned '"Hrongla" of W v d Vogelweide. Showing branch river running down to Euphrates', one also captioned 'Taken by T E Lawrence' ['W v d Vogelweide' may be Walther von der Vogelweide, c 1170 - c 1230, medieval German lyrical poet and performer].
