A Visual History of Household Servants and Slaves
In this blog, Yale author Diane Wolfthal brings the visual representation of household workers in medieval and early-modern…
Colonialism
Conversations: Colonialism
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
The Gauguin Atlas
Art historian Dr Linda Goddard characterises the identity of Paul Gauguin as both ‘carefully self-constructed’ and ‘constantly shifting’…
The World the American Revolution Made
The imperial American Revolution altered forever the lives of everyday people, ravaging communities and sending thousands of individuals…
Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870
The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with eighteenth and nineteenth century British cultural politics. By…
‘Under the Banyan Tree: Relocating the Picturesque in British India’ by Romita Ray
Under the Banyan Tree is the first comprehensive study of the evolution and flourishing of the picturesque during the…