Crusader Castles (file) - KCL Digital Collections

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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 gateway, Rumkale castle, 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 a gateway, Rumkale castle (also Rum Kalaat, Qal'at al Rum, Urumgala), on the Euphrates, Turkey. Three copies, all captioned on the back 'Rum Kalaat main gate', one also captioned '[mostly hewn out of solid rock]', another captioned 'Taken by T E Lawrence'.

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