A photograph of Baden-Powell in his miltary get up, probably taken some time shortly after 1900 when he was promoted after his role during the Boer War’s Siege of Mafeking.
Featured on PDR in the essay Robert Baden-Powell’s Entomological Intrigues
In 1915 Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouts movement, published his DIY guide to espionage, My Adventures as a Spy. Mark Kaufman explores how the book's ideas to utilise such natural objects as butterflies, moths and leaves, worked to mythologize British resourcefulness and promote a certain 'weaponization of the pastoral'.
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Robert Baden-Powell
Date
ca. 1900
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