The 'Lost' Museum: the rise and fall of the British Empire in objects
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Westminster
Department Name: Sch of Humanities
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Jacqueline Grainger (Student) |
Publications
Jacqui
(2022)
The RUSI Journal in 1922
in Modernist Review
Schuster K
(2021)
Digital cultural heritage: Collaborating with students and discovering lost museums
in Education for Information
| Description | Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow for the History of Science and Communication, Bodleian Libraries |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Bodleian Library |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The award of the fellowship enabled research on materials from the special collections that I was able to present as one of the University of Westminster, History Research Seminars. This seminar was presented in a hybrid form and made available to the wider research communities of the Bodleian Library Visiting Scholars Programme, the Royal United Services Institute, the Royal Historical Association, the Historic Libraries Forum and London Independent Libraries and Archives - as well as overseas colleagues in Sydney, Singapore and Canada. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Visiting Fellowship at the Bodleian Library provided me a month's focused research on unique materials crucial to my research question. The materials I accessed were the Archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (and relevant secondary literature) and an 1861 Christies' sales catalogue for the sale of the United Service Museum's ethnological collections. The United Service Museum developed into the Royal United Service Institute, a think tank for defence and security studies based in Whitehall. There is no copy of the sales catalogue in the RUSI Archive, or any detail of deaccessions, so this was a key resource for mapping the collections of the museum. The fellowship also included a stipend of £1800 towards a month long stay in Oxford. The University of Westminster also awarded funding of £550 towards the cost of rent and travel for the month. |
| Impact | University of Westminster, History Seminar, Tuesday 07 February 2023. |
| Start Year | 2022 |