Little is known outside Iran about the silverwork produced in Iran during this period. John Rogers, of the Chiswick Auction House, has been studying the subject for some years and has acquired a small collection himself. His talk will be about the current state of...

David Lorimer, apart from his political and military duties as consul during those turbulent times, was a noted scholar and linguist.  He studied Persian and the dialects of the Bakhtiari country, of Kerman and  of the Gabri.  When working in India he wrote a standard...

Prince Arfa' was a remarkable man, The son of a Tabrizi cloth merchant, by dint of hard study and good fortune he attracted the attention of Naser ed-Din Shah and rose rapidly through the bureaucracy. He became ambassador at St Petersburg and consul in Tiflis...