Various dates are associated with the colonisation of Palestine, notably 1917 which ties into the Balfour Declaration, and 1948, the year of the Nakba. Gabriel Polley’s new book, Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land (I.B. Tauris, 2022) sets the scene earlier, with the Victorian era travellers to Palestine when it was under Ottoman rule in the 19th century. “Like all European ‘explorers’, these travellers discovered regions already inhabited by an indigenous population who knew their homeland intimately,” Polley writes. However, as the book illustrates through drawing upon lesser-known writings on the subject, early narratives on Palesti
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