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  • Taking the Shilling

    Three families find India through the army In the spring of 1823, a young man named Jonathan Chadwick walked into a recruiting office in Huddersfield and joined the army, as the saying goes, he chose to ‘take the shilling‘. The recruitment papers say he was…

  • An Old Photograph

    He looks directly and confidently into the camera. He does not smile and neither does the woman by his side. She is short in stature, wearing a patterned white dress and leaning slightly into his shoulder. He is dressed in the winter uniform of an…