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Digital Exhibition

4/1/2021

 
Greece Re-Created: Classical Inspiration at Belsay Hall
Great North Museum: Hancock

An exhibition on the collector Charles Monck (1779-1867), who lived at Belsay Hall in Northumberland, featuring extracts from his diary of his honeymoon in Greece and artefacts from the Shefton Collection.

Exhibition Website: greece-recreated.com/
Great North Museum: Hancock Website:
greatnorthmuseum.org.uk/ 

Digital Exhibition

2/9/2020

 
Mediterranean Threads: 18th and 19th Century Greek Embroideries
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
12 Sep 2020-Feb 2021


This online exhibition is part of the Ashmolean's Museum from Home series. It focuses on 18th and 19th century textiles from the Mediterranean in the Ashmolean's collection. Many of these were collected by noted early 20th c British archaeologist John Linton Myres, who spent time travelling and excavating in Greece and Cyprus.

See the exhibition here.

Sir Hans Sloane & Empire

31/8/2020

 
The British Museum
Room 1 (Enlightenment Gallery), Case 14


The British Museum has recently created a new display on founder Sir Hans Sloane, slavery and empire in the Enlightenment Gallery.  This display reflects the history of Sloane's ties to Jamaica, through his marriage to Elizabeth Langley Rose (the heiress to sugar plantations on the island) and the investments Sloane made in a slave trading company. 

Further Reading
Bakare, Laura. 2020. British Museum defends moving bust of slave-owning founder. The Guardian [online]. 

The British Museum. 2020. The British Museum Story. The British Museum [online]. 

Delburgo, James. 2017. Collecting the World: the Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane. Allen Lane.


Olusoga, David. 2020. It's not Hans Sloane that has been erased from history, but his slaves. The Guardian [online].

Listen to the British Museum Podcast Special episodes "International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade" (feat. Sushma Jansari and Hartwig Fisher with Olivette Otele and Bonnie Greer) and "Sir Hans Sloane" (feat. Sushma Jansari and Hartwig Fisher with Miranda Lowe and James Delburgo)

Collecting & Empire Trail

31/8/2020

 
The British Museum
Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London


The British Museum has recently re-launched an enhanced edition of the "Collecting Histories" trail, which had been developed in 2019.  The "Collecting and Empire" trail showcases the imperial/colonial histories of 15 artefacts on display in the British Museum, including objects collected from Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Sudan, Nigeria, Virginia, Canada, Java and China.

Download the trail here.

Network Talk

12/1/2020

 
 'I took a man over, & began to dig': Catherine Downes' excavation of Roman Warminster, 1786
Madeleine Pelling (York)
19 February 2020
6-7 pm, UCL Institute of Archaeology Room 209

Exploring the history of this 18th century #trowelblazer's excavations which uncovered a Roman mosaic, and revealing the history of women in archaeology at this time. 
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Network Talk

2/3/2018

 
In the footsteps of maverick Orientalists: Exploring the Royal Asiatic Society Archive

13 March 2018, 6-7pm
Room 209, UCL Institute of Archaeology


Nancy Charley (RAS archivist) and Ed Weech (RAS Librarian) discuss key British Orientalists: Thomas Manning (1772-1840); Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) and Lady Isabel Burton (1831-1896); and Oscar Eckenstein (1859-1921).

Network Talk

17/1/2018

 
An Introduction to the Central Archive at the British Museum
Francesca Hillier (Archivist, The British Museum)
22 February 2018, 6-7pm
Room 209, UCL Institute of Archaeology


Francesca will discuss the Museum's Central Archive, housing important documents relating to the Museum's history and the history of its collections.

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