Resources & Links

(compiled by Mary Horgan and Alison Wood)

Associated Research Projects and Centres

• Global Circulation Project, University of Exeter A global map of and dialogue on the translation, reception and adaption of key Anglophone works, authors, genres, and literary movements outside Britain, Europe, and North America
• Integrated histories of the Andaman Islands A 3 year Economic and Social Research Council funded UK-India collaborative project, University of Warwick

• Intercolonial networks of the Indian Ocean Reassessing Australia’s place in a network of colonies in the Indian Ocean (IO) area, funded by the Australian Research Council, University of Technology, Sydney

• Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950 An inter-disciplinary project examining the formative contributions South Asians made to Britain’s literary, political and cultural life in the period 1870–1950.

• Postcolonial Studies Project NYU A centre for post-colonial studies criticism, colloquia and publications, based in the Department of English

• Centre for Imperial and Maritime Studies, National Maritime Museum, London Research centred on the museum’s world-class imperial and maritime collections

• Sustaining the Empire: War, the Navy and the Contractor State A three year project investigating how the Royal Navy fed itself during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815, National Maritime Museum

• The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 a 3-year research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust that seeks to enhance historical understanding of the form and function of British country house culture by situating changes in elite domestic interiors within wider global contexts.

Libraries, Archives and Collections

• Tasveer Ghar: A digital network of South Asian popular culture A trans-national virtual home for collecting, digitising and documenting materials produced by South Asia’s visual sphere

• Online Collection, Geffyre Museum A collection detailing domestic objects and household commodities searchable by period, place, material and theme

• Online Catalogue, The Royal College of Surgeons of England Charting the history of medicine and surgery, SurgiCat archives specimens, surgical instruments, paintings and sculptures
• Online Collection, National Maritime Museum More than17,000 objects about the sea, ships, astronomy and time

• Endangered Archives Programme, British Library Preserving archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration world-wide. Grants awarded by application

• Histoire Globale: l’autre histoire du monde

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historical Collection Over 60,000 volumes of books, pamphlets, reports, typescripts and manuscripts, held at King’s College London

A Spotlight on Commodities – Tea and Biscuits

• The History of Ceylon Tea Manuscripts, books, reports, memories and photographs documenting the history of Ceylon Tea

• United Kingdom Tea Council An introduction to the social and trade history of tea, from the London Tea Auction to the East India Company

• Chinese Tea Culture Online Museum – Exhibition Rooms A series of online galleries featuring tea equipment and art

• Ship’s Biscuits: The Naval “Hard Tack” A short history of the ship’s biscuit, along with a recipe to try at home, courtesy of the Royal Naval Museum

Contemporary Depictions of Commodities and Objects

• Oobject Visual lists of human-made objects, from sausage-making machines to prosthetic limbs

• Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Links A collection of useful links to current commodity markets

• The Mast Brothers at their Chocolate Factory in Brooklyn A visual essay from Todd Selby, interiors photographer, illustrating the chocolate making process employed by the Mast Brothers, New York

Museums

• Museum of London, Docklands

• National Maritime Museum

• Natural History Museum, London

• Geffyre Museum, London A museum tracing the English middle class domestic interior from 1600 to the present day

• Freud Museum, London Visit ‘Objects in Mind’ (until 27 Frebruary 2011), an exhibition exploring people and objects, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery

• Enlightenment Gallery, British Museum, London A study in objects, their classifiers and collectors

Blogs

• BAVS Postgraduate Blog: The Victorianist Events, calls for papers and professional development resources for graduate students

• National Maritime Museum Collections Blog A blog introducing new acquisitions, documenting current conservation and research work and telling the stories of objects from the museum’s collection.