Curating empire (eBook)

Sarah Longair is Education Manager at the British Museum and was awarded her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2012|John McAleer is Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

General editor’s introduction
Introduction: Curating empire: Museums and the British imperial experience – Sarah Longair and John McAleer
1. The case of Thomas Baines, curator-explorer extraordinaire, and the display of Africa in nineteenth-century Norfolk –John McAleer
2. Visiting the Empire at the provincial museum, 1900–50 – Claire Wintle
3. Carving out a place in the Better Britain of the South Pacific: Maori in New Zealand museums and exhibitions – Conal McCarthy
4. Curiosities or science in the National Museum of Victoria: Procurement networks and the purpose of a museum – Gareth Knapman
5. Narrative as history, image as memory: Exhibiting the Great War in Australia, 1917–41–Jennifer Wellington
6. ‘The lady curator’s style’: Negotiating curatorial challenges in the Zanzibar Museum –Sarah Longair
7. A Museum for Sierra Leone? Amateur enthusiasms and colonial museum policy in British West Africa – Paul Basu
8. Edgar Thurston at the Madras Museum (1885–1909): The multiple careers of a colonial museum curator – Savithri Preetha Nair
9. Sir William Gregory and the origins and foundation of the Colombo Museum – Philip McEvansoneya
10. Tipu’s Tiger and images of India in British museums, 1799–2009 – Sadiah Qureshi
Afterword: Objects, empire and museums – Sarah Longair and John McAleer
Index