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Historical books online
==Spelling variants==
Peshawer, Peshawur, Paishawar, Peyshawurr
 
==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://www.gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/tags/37-peshawar Images of Peshawar in FIBIS Gallery]
*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Category:Peshawar_images Images of Peshawar in Fibiwiki]
==Education==
*''Peshawar Monumental Inscriptions II'' by Susan Farrington, 1991. More inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries. 168pp, profusely illustrated and plan
See [http://indian-cemeterieswww.bacsa.org.uk/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html ?page_id=875 BACSA Books].
[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] are in the process of putting the have put some indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browseat [http://bacsa.frontis.co/bin/index.php BACSA Search]. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA Archive]] at the British Library Mss F370 has items which may also be contained in the above books*884 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials 1851-1864; register of graves, 1887-1888 *885 Peshawar, Pakistan: burials, 1864-1870 *886 Peshawar, Pakistan. See [http: burials, 1870-1879 *887 Peshawar //www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=697 BACSA Cemetery files] and Cherat, Pakistan: burials at Peshawar, 1879-1890; burials at Cherat, 1879-1887 *888 Peshawar, select Pakistan: burials, 1890-1933.
For some memorial inscriptions from Peshawar , see [http://www.indian-cemeteries.org Indian Cemeteries], including
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimage.asp?mode=mon&ID=301 Monument to those who died 67th Battery Royal Field Artillery 1904-1906] at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimage.asp?mode=mon&ID=314 Monument to those who died No 6 Mountain Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 1914-1921] at Tehkal Cemetery, Peshawar
 
Also see "Historical books online", below.
==Hospitals==
*[http://www.khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/aboutus/Town-Places.php Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Town & Places] contains information about Peshawar (scroll down)
*[http://www.peshawardiocese.org/default.asp Diocese of Peshawar, Church of Pakistan]
*[http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20121026&page=28 "A possible Peshawar"] by Albert J Godlin October 26, 2012 ''The Friday Times''. Contains details of the British clubs, including the largest, the Peshawar Club, cinemas and churches. *[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26.html Khyber [Masonic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Lodge, Peshawar]**[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43.html Peshawar Remembered] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. [http://www.pakhtun.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=36%3Ahistory&id=88%3Apeshawar-remembered-walter-reeve&Itemid=90 Another version] www.pakhtun.com, and [http://web.archive.org/web/20090829075530/http://geocities.com/scn_pk/peshawar_remembered.html another version] (archived). The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. See [[Murree]] for the author's memories of Murree.
*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/peshawar-ab.htm PAF <nowiki>[</nowiki>previously RAF<nowiki>]</nowiki> Peshawar] globalsecurity.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131121052603/http://www.geocities.ws/scn_pk/peshawar_vale_hunt.html Peshawar Vale Hunt] by Dr Ali Jan (archive.org link)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20081002070800/http://www.geocities.com/scn_pk/gertrude.html Peshawar: Excerpts from Gertrude Bell's Diary (dated 22/01/1903 to 27/01/1903)] Sarhad Conservation Network, now archived.
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-P.htm#Peshawar RAF Peshawar] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
'''Missionaries'''
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/tphughes/clark2002.pdf "Thomas Patrick Hughes, Missionary to British India: The Class Ceiling"] by Elizabeth Hughes Clark 2002 anglicanhistory.org. Hughes was a missionary in Peshawar 1865-1884 with the Church Missionary Society (CMS). He was the author of ''Khalid-i-Afghani'', Being a Selection of Pushto Prose and Poetry for the Use of Students, 1873, which became the text book for the Pakhto Examination and ''Notes on Muhammadanism'' 1875 [https://archive.org/details/notesonmuhammada00hughrich 2nd edition , revised and enlarged 1877] Archive.org. He is also mentioned in the account by the Rev. Worthington Jukes, refer below.
 
====Images====
*[http://thevelvetrocket.com/2009/11/25/visiting-peshawar-scenes-and-pictures-of-pakistan Visiting Peshawar – Scenes And Pictures Of Pakistan] 2009 - Includes photos of St John’s Cathedral and the cemetery
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Re7ixChJUvUC&pg=PA53 Plan of the Peshawar Cantonment 1870] page 53 ''The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India'' by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai, Jon Lang Google Books
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3912689013/ Photograph of Peshawar 1878] A view across the cantonment towards St John's Church and the distant mountains of the Khyber Pass, taken in 1878 by John Burke. (Flickr)
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=2001-02-335-30 Photograph: The Peshawar Vale Hunt, 1896] National Army Museum
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/pakistan/barracks-peshawar.html Postcard: British Infantry Barracks Peshawar c 1910] imagesofasia.com
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-peshawar-nwfp-soldiers-bungalows-old-postcard-british-indian-colour-for-sale-124467 Postcard: Soldiers' Bungalow <nowiki>[</nowiki>Barracks<nowiki>]</nowiki> Peshawar] www.stamps-auction.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3901783868/in/photostream Postcard: Soldiers’ Married Quarters Peshawar] flickr.com
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-colour-postcard-the-mall-showing-station-hospital-peshawar-n-w-f-p--for-sale-132083 Postcard: The Mall showing Station Hospital Peshawar] www.stamps-auction.com
*From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043188-RE_171853.html Peshawar, NWFP, General view of Robert Barracks, post stamped 19.2 1928] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043188-VE_216175.html message]
====Historical books online====
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/35247 ''Gazetteer Of The Peshawar District 1897-98'']. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/280933 ''N W F Province Gazetteers Peshawar District Vol.a 1931'']. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA428 Peshawur in 1854] page 428 ‪''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬ by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books. ([https://archive.org/stream/wallstreettocash1859irel#page/436/mode/2up page 436] (missing from the previous file)). The author was an American lawyer born in 1823.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/390/mode/2up Peshawur] page 391 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*''Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes'' by his Wife 1886 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife01edwa Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife02edwa Volume II]. Edwardes was Commissioner of Peshawar during the [[Indian Mutiny]].
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/punjabsindhmissi00clar#page/160/mode/2up "Peshawur"], page 160 ''The Punjab and Sindh missions of the Church Missionary Society Giving an account of their foundation and progress for thirty-three years, from 1852 to 1884. Second edition, considerably enlarged, of a book entitled "Thirty years of missionary work of the C.M.S. in the Punjab and Sindh"'' by Robert Clark 1885 Archive.org
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/jukes1925/ ''Reminiscences of Missionary Work In Amritsar 1872-1873 and on the Afghan Frontier In Peshawar 1873-1890''] by the Rev. Worthington Jukes 1925. anglicanhistory.org.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=171 "Peshawar District"], page 149 ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1'' by Miles Irving (1910) Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n49/mode/2up Peshawar Riot 23 April 1930] page 16 ''India in 1930-31'' archive.org
*[https://web.archive.org/save/_embed/http://lib.uofk.edu/multisites/UofK_lib/images/stories/libpdf/sud.lib.imperial%20policing.pdf ''Imperial Policing''] by Major-General Sir Charles W Gwynn 1939 Archive.org (pdf). Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/275121 pdf download], Digital Library of India. Includes Chapter 10, "Peshawar District 1930", page 253.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/527935 ''Seven Cantonments''] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based in the North-West Frontier region, in the c1930s including Peshawar. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
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