Hi #museum people, I am trying to understand how UK museums were responding to decolonial/ postcolonial movements in the 1980s/90s. Would anyone have any leads/ reading suggestions on where to find this info?

Looking forward to discussing our article on the history of collecting for the V&A’s provenance research seminar in June! Details below

Looking forward to talking about my research at the Society of Antiquaries in Edinburgh this April! Booking info below👇🏽

Visited the Jameel Prize exhibition at the V&A and loved all the displays but as someone researching museums history and thinking of what an alternative museum could look like, Khandakar Ohida’s uncle’s conception of dreaming his own museum was so evocative.

One of India’s preeminent feminist writers and political thinkers has been invited to the University of Exeter to provide a series of talks and engagement sessions this month.

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Looking forward to this exciting series of talks with Nivedita Menon at @exetersouthasia.bsky.social

Keynote 2, Feb 27 at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
- 'State, Religion and the Bodies of Women': www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynote-st...

Keynote 1, Feb 26 at @uoearchhist.bsky.social - Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynote-se...

We are very excited to share that Prof Nivedita Menon, a leading public intellectual & feminist thinker, will be visiting us at @exeter.ac.uk! Join us for a series of events discussing her latest book, India, global feminism, and South Asian studies.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Come and speak at our workshop! Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall - University of Derby 19-20 June
Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and organised by Oliver Godsmark, @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social & myself

Please share widely!

Koloman Moser (1868–1918) was one of the leading artists of the Vienna Secession movement, alongside Josef Hoffman, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt.

In 1901, the artist was approached by the Austro-Hungarian Bank to design new banknotes. This painting marks the beginning of Moser’s creative journey.

Earlier this year, I undertook interviews with coin collectors & curators discussing their work with South Asian coins stored in UK Museums. As the year ends, all the episodes in the series are out as podcasts! Listen to them here.

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"What good might be achieved if auction houses and academia were to work more closely together on provenance research?"
A blog post on the recent "State of the Field" article by @shreyagupta.bsky.social, @libertypaterson.bsky.social, Niti Acharya, & me.
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/ca...

This excellent article by @suryabowyer.com, Shreya Gupta, @libertypaterson.bsky.social , and Niti Acharya includes a generous reflection on AHRC funded work in collections, and a challenge for the future
@hisjournalha.bsky.social

#skystorians New article drop! A 'State of the Field' reflection on The History of Collections and Institutions by Surya Bowyer, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson, and Niti Acharya. OA
doi.org/10.1111/1468...

"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What better way to do my 1st post than announcing this (hot off the press) publication on the state of the (future) field of the history of collecting with partners in crime @suryabowyer.com @libertypaterson.bsky.social & Niti Acharya. It’s also open access!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Museum folks: come along to this!