The BBC, Ofcom and now the British Museum – why do the Tories keep interfering in cultural appointments? Important piece Charlotte Higgins

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Here’s my blog on the Clive Museum Powis Castle & Garden NT/YG Castell a Gardd Powis! - mainlymuseums - Tigers in the Castle: The Clive Museum …ea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Sign up (at nesouthasia.gmail.com) to join Radha and South Asia colleagues@durham_uni #ShamiraMeghani #ChrisBahl #StephenAshe for Dr Jennifer Howes's talk about the East India Company, art & propaganda, using material from the Durham University Collections. Tue 23 April at 2pm in the IAS.

“Keep the art and the buildings, I say. Turn the offices, perhaps, into a Museum of British Colonialism. Lord knows, we need to understand the history better.” Thank you, ⁦⁦Sathnam Sanghera⁩! Abolish King Charles Street - New Statesman newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Here's Lord Clive in a Roman legionary outfit

These Mesopotamian mastiffs are named “catcher of the enemy”, “loud is his bark”, “don’t think-bite”, “biter of his foe” & “expeller of evil”. Figurines like these were used to protect homes 2500 years ago! Now in British Museum Article by Nancy Highcock in BM Magazine issue 108

Papier mâché model of a South Indian temple gopura inside a glass case Lynn Museum & one of the gopuras leading into the Minaksi Sundaresvara Temple, #Madurai

As if being killed at Jaipur by Edward Prince of Wales in 1876 wasn’t insulting enough, “Horace” the tiger was misgendered for over a century! Conservators Lynn Museum recently revealed he was a she.

As a middle aged British woman, I enjoy the occasional bit of photo editing. Here's a picture of me delivering a lecture inside Calcutta Town Hall in the 1820s, along with a youtube link for the lecture. youtu.be/HhsvkZEgCfU?si…

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | Nicholas Cullinan is the new director of the British Museum

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Krishna outnumbered! Painting by a Rajput artist, 19th Century, now in Wellcome Collection London. Have a closer look here: wellcomecollection.org/works/qnk8qaq2
Happy Holi!

I’m giving a talk about the East India Company Durham University on 23 April! Thank you Durham IAS and Radha for inviting me.

Call for papers! Seminar in Delhi on “Visual Cultures of Colonial India: A Historical Perspective” - British Art Network britishartnetwork.org.uk/uncategorised/…

Thanks to Durham IAS & along with South Asia colleagues Durham University #ShamiraMeghani #ChrisBahl #StephenAshe I’m thrilled to share that on 23 Apr Dr Jennifer Howes will speak on the EIC, art & propaganda, using material from the Durham University Collections
Part of our North East South Asia Network calendar for 2024

As a middle aged British woman, I enjoy the occasional bit of photo editing. Here's a picture of me delivering a lecture inside Calcutta Town Hall in the 1820s, along with a youtube link for the lecture. youtu.be/HhsvkZEgCfU?si…

New Delhi in 1995. In the picture of Connaught Place, you can see the Jami Masjid in the background.

20 years ago I took these pictures inside the beautiful 16th Century Jama Masjid at Burhanpur. The inscription in the picture below is written in Sanskrit and Arabic!! A tranquil place that I hope to see again one day.