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John Vaughan; Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

by Duffus Bros
bromide print on card mount, circa 1900
11 3/4 in. x 9 3/4 in. (300 mm x 248 mm) overall
Given by Xenia Dennen, 2012
Photographs Collection
NPG x182264

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The Conservatives return to power, after the Prime Minister Lord Salisbury calls a general election, known as the 'Khaki election', on the back of huge jingoistic support for the Boer War.
The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) is founded from a coalition of socialist groups; they win two seats in the 1900 election and Ramsay Macdonald is appointed secretary. The Labour politician Keir Hardie is also returned to Parliament for Merthyr Tydfilin Wales.

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German physicist Max Planck proposes the concept of the quantum theory. Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published. In the text, Freud outlines his theory of dream analysis, crucial to the study of the unconscious, and introduces key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the Ego.
The Paris International Exhibition, attended by more than 50 million people and including over 76,000 exhibitors, marks the heyday of Art Nouveau.

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In China the Boxer rebellion takes place. The Boxers were anti-imperialist and against foreign influence in trade, religion, politics and technology in the final years of the Manchu rule. The Boxers invade Beijing, killing 230 foreigners and Chinese Christians. The rebellion is suppressed by a multinational coalition of 20,000 troops, with China being forced to pay large war reparations, contributing to growing nationalist resentment against the Qing dynasty.

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john hussey

26 March 2018, 17:20

The unknown man with DH is his fellow but junior 7th Hussars colleague John Vaughan, [later Maj-Gen Sir JV, who commanded a cavalry division in the second half of WW1, and afterwards president of British Legion in Wales]. His book 'Cavalry and Sporting Memories', Bala Press 1954 is full of anecdotes of his admired friend DH