Photograph archive offers snapshot of early 20th century Shanghai

Today it’s one of the world’s most populous and modernised cities but the Shanghai Albert ‘Bert’ Aiers would have found in the early 1900s would have been very different indeed.

In 1902, the 18-year-old left his job as a postman in Birmingham to become a police officer in the S…

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