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Shreya Gupta @shreyagupta.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Hi #museum people, I am trying to understand how UK museums were responding to decolonial/ postcolonial movements in the 1980s/90s. Would anyone have any leads/ reading suggestions on where to find this info?

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Shreya Gupta @shreyagupta.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Looking forward to discussing our article on the history of collecting for the V&A’s provenance research seminar in June! Details below

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Shreya Gupta @shreyagupta.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Looking forward to talking about my research at the Society of Antiquaries in Edinburgh this April! Booking info below👇🏽

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Shreya Gupta @shreyagupta.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Visited the Jameel Prize exhibition at the V&A and loved all the displays but as someone researching museums history and thinking of what an alternative museum could look like, Khandakar Ohida’s uncle’s conception of dreaming his own museum was so evocative.

Description of Dream Your Museum, winner, by Khandakar Ohida

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Exeter South Asia Centre, University of Exeter @exetersouthasia.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We are very excited to share that Prof Nivedita Menon, a leading public intellectual & feminist thinker, will be visiting us at @exeter.ac.uk! Join us for a series of events discussing her latest book, India, global feminism, and South Asian studies.

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Dr Rebekah Hodgkinson @rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS Come and speak at our workshop! Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall - University of Derby 19-20 June Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and organised by Oliver Godsmark, @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social & myself Please share widely!

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Koloman Moser (1868–1918) was one of the leading artists of the Vienna Secession movement, alongside Josef Hoffman, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt. In 1901, the artist was approached by the Austro-Hungarian Bank to design new banknotes. This painting marks the beginning of Moser’s creative journey.

A draft painting for a banknote featuring the head of a woman.

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Shreya Gupta @shreyagupta.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Earlier this year, I undertook interviews with coin collectors & curators discussing their work with South Asian coins stored in UK Museums. As the year ends, all the episodes in the series are out as podcasts! Listen to them here. podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/shrey...

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surya bowyer @suryabowyer.com · 09/12/2024

"What good might be achieved if auction houses and academia were to work more closely together on provenance research?" A blog post on the recent "State of the Field" article by @shreyagupta.bsky.social, @libertypaterson.bsky.social, Niti Acharya, & me. www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/ca...

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State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions

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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This excellent article by @suryabowyer.com, Shreya Gupta, @libertypaterson.bsky.social , and Niti Acharya includes a generous reflection on AHRC funded work in collections, and a challenge for the future @hisjournalha.bsky.social

As we have seen, the fields of the history of collecting and the history of institutions are diverse yet often entwined. By analysing the work of a new generation of scholars – under the auspices of the CDP scheme – this article has charted recent research trends and looked forward to future directions in these fields. That future is a thrilling one. Collecting institutions are increasingly motivated to examine their colonial histories and the provenance of their objects. This provides research opportunities across academia and the museum sector. Digital tools increasingly aid this work. Recent developments in network mapping have been particularly fruitful, and we are seeing an increasing use of quantitative methods when investigating collections and their histories. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already used by the commercial sector and by a handful of larger public institutions such as the Wellcome, though it is usually deployed in very limited contexts. As research continues and AI becomes integrated into more areas of everyday life, we shall see an increasing number of institutions deploying AI to help analyse and make sense of collections data at a scale that was not previously viable. The ‘raw materials’ of history – to return to Burgess's metaphor – are becoming better understood as well as more readily accessible. The future of looking back at the past is bright.

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#skystorians New article drop! A 'State of the Field' reflection on The History of Collections and Institutions by Surya Bowyer, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson, and Niti Acharya. OA doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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surya bowyer @suryabowyer.com · 25/11/2024

"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions

This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie....

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surya bowyer @suryabowyer.com · 11/01/2024

Museum folks: come along to this!

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