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Jane Lydon

Biography

Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her books include Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire (2020) and Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (2016) which explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.
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