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Filtering by: Creator Hartwell, Nicole M Library of congress classification sim GN Collection Baggage and Belonging: Military collections and the British Empire, 1750 - 1900

2022

Journal article

Framing colonial war loot: The ‘captured’ spolia opima of Kunwar Singh

This article investigates the provenance of four artefacts associated with the military commander Kunwar Singh (1777–1858), who fought a guerrilla campaign against the British during the Indian Uprising of 1857–8. By analysing how these objects were documented and inscribed, it can be shown that, through the invocation of what is...

Hartwell, Nicole M
‘taken in action’, British armed forces, Indian Uprising, 1857-58, military, Royal Scottish Museum, General Godfrey Pearse , eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, ‘captured’ , traditions, codes and practices, looting , South Asian collections , spolia opima, Kunwar Singh, colonial histories, silver artefacts, and colonial military campaigns
2020

Book chapter

The officers' mess: an anthropology and history of the military interior

This chapter uses a model of British Army organisational culture and historical analysis to examine the nature of the ‘military interior’ – specifically the public rooms in the officers’ mess and the artefacts found within. The authors seek to combine their expertise to create a broader understanding of how military...

Kirke, Charles ; Hartwell, Nicole M
Post-Colonial Studies , War Studies, Museum & Gallery Studies , Cultural History, and Imperial/Colonial History