Photographs are probably the most ubiquitous and
far-reaching records of the colonial past. They trace the experiences of a vast
range of people touched by European colonial expansion and domination, both
colonised and colonisers.
How is this record understood in public histories?
What is its role in the way contemporary European cultures
configure their pasts for the benefit of their futures?
This website explores the different ways in which
photographs of the colonial past have been used by museums, as spaces of public
history, to communicate and interpret the colonial past in a postcolonial and
multicultural Europe.
Intended for curators, heritage managers, teachers an
students, this resources has been built in response to the concerns of
curators, debates about difficult histories in museums, the role of photographs
in the museum space, and especially, key questions about the representation of
the colonial past in museums as vectors of public history.
The resource offers a unique comparative character that is
the result of a collaborative research project, funded by HERA (Humanities in
the European Research Area), in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Norway,
all of which have very different colonial histories and postcolonial
engagements.
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