Baggage and Belonging: Military collections and the British Empire, 1750

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A repository of virtue?: The United Service Museum, collecting, and the professionalization of the British Armed Forces, 1829–1864
(2018-04-14)
Hartwell, Nicole M
By examining the development of the United Service Museum (established in London in 1831) this article demonstrates how the practice of collecting knowledge and material culture during the nineteenth century was considered an important avenue through which to inculcate virtuous behaviour in officers of the British armed forces. Although the museum’s curators favoured objects that reflected the development of the ‘science of warfare’ from the mid- to late-1850s and beyond, in the first half of the nineteenth century the collection of knowledge of other cultures and the natural world was considered just as significant for the professionalization of the services. By tracing these shifts in the museum’s collections policies this article highlights the complexities of the role, meaning and purpose of military museums, and makes a call to reappraise the nature of their collections, challenging the view that they should be exclusively seen as repositories of ‘spoils of war’.
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Uncovering stories of military collecting
(2018-09-09)
Hartwell, Nicole M
Nicole Hartwell tells the story of a delicately embroidered Italian textile whose appearance is at odds with the tumultuous and bloody period of British Indian history to which it is connected.
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Black Watch alliances in Seven Years War revealed
(2014-07-11)
Lidchi, Henrietta
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Allan, Stuart
This summer a group of historians, anthropologists and First Nation community members assembled at the Woodlands Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario. They met to share knowledge and discuss research into the civilisations and arts of the Great Lakes region. Part of their discussion revolved around an object from the collections of National Museums Scotland, an elaborately engraved powder horn made around 1758 during the Seven Years War (1756-1763) also known in North America as the French and Indian War.
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Re-capturing the British Imperial Past
(2016)
Allan, Stuart
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Lidchi, Henrietta
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Baggage and Belonging: Military collections and the British Empire, 1750 - 1900

Baggage and Belonging: Military collections and the British Empire, 1750 - 1900

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