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Curating empire: museums and the British imperial experience

Curating empire: museums and the British imperial experience
Curating empire: museums and the British imperial experience
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of ‘museum networks’ in the British imperial context. Curating Empire sheds new light on the relationship between museums, as repositories for objects and cultural institutions for conveying knowledge, and the politics of culture and the formation of identities throughout the British Empire.
978-0-7190-8507-9
Manchester University Press
Longair, Sarah
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McAleer, John
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Longair, Sarah
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McAleer, John
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Longair, Sarah and McAleer, John (eds.) (2012) Curating empire: museums and the British imperial experience (Studies in Imperialism), Manchester, GB. Manchester University Press, 256pp.

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Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of ‘museum networks’ in the British imperial context. Curating Empire sheds new light on the relationship between museums, as repositories for objects and cultural institutions for conveying knowledge, and the politics of culture and the formation of identities throughout the British Empire.

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Published date: October 2012
Organisations: History

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Local EPrints ID: 343567
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/343567
ISBN: 978-0-7190-8507-9
PURE UUID: f6f4f2e9-b999-4b3b-9c59-3e1293795127
ORCID for John McAleer: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0008-6971-7997

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Date deposited: 04 Oct 2012 15:18
Last modified: 06 Sep 2023 01:44

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Editor: Sarah Longair
Editor: John McAleer ORCID iD

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