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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

Manpower, myth and memory: analysing Scotland's military contribution to the Great War

The aim of this article is to determine what conclusions the available sources allow us to make about the nature of Scottish service and sacrifice in the Great War. The article finds that contemporary sources do not lend themselves well to statistical analysis of Scotland's manpower contribution in the Great...

Watt, Patrick
Great War, Royal Navy, losses, statistics, Scotland, myth, British Army, Royal Flying Corps, memory, and military