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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
Journal article

Projecting the Museum: moving images in, and of, Scotland's national museum

The century-long engagement of museums with the moving image is examined through a case study of its deployment by National Museums Scotland (inclusive of its predecessor organisations the Royal Scottish Museum and the Royal Museum of Scotland). The study engages the academic genres of film studies and museum studies to...

Swinney, Geoffrey N
Cinema, television, video, film, Royal Scottish Museum, National Museums Scotland, and historical geography