Professor Coll Thrush (University of British Columbia) International Collaborator, ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ “Terms like metropole and colony, core and periphery presume to make clear what … Read more
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Emotional Exchanges: Native Pilgrimages to the Object Archive
Dr Jack Davy (University of East Anglia) Research Associate, ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ In this blog post I am going to introduce my personal research programme … Read more
First Steps
Dr Charlie Hall (University of Kent) Research Administrator, ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ I joined ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ in mid-September as Research Administrator, having been awarded my … Read more
Indigenous Voices in the Archives: Nora Gladstone and the 1937 Coronation
Dr Kate Rennard (University of Kent) Research Associate, ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ On a foggy morning in May 1937, Nora Gladstone, a Kainai teenager from southern … Read more
Spectacles and So Much More
Professor Cecilia Morgan (University of Toronto) A Cherokee-Scots soldier, interpreter, and journal-writer visited London in 1804. He arrived as an emissary for the Haudenosaunee Pine … Read more
Buffalo Bill’s Lakota “Indians” in 1887
Professor Jacqueline Fear-Segal (UEA) Co-Investigator, ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show had already thrilled huge audiences in the USA when in 1887 it … Read more
The Hunt for White Cloud
Dr Jack Davy (University of East Anglia) Research Associate, ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ In the previous post for this blog David Stirrup discussed the broad sweep … Read more
WATCH: Native North Americans in Kent
On Wednesday 1 November, Professor David Stirrup – the project’s principal investigator – spoke to KMTV in Kent about the history of Native North American … Read more
From 1736 to 2006: Cycles of Native Presence in London
Professor David Stirrup (University of Kent) Principal Investigator, ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ On 22 November 2006, Mohegan sachem Mahomet Weyonomon finally received the Mohegan ceremony denied … Read more
First World War Native Stories.
As we approach the centenary of the Armistice, ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ is highlighting Indigenous North Americans’ experiences in Britain during the First World War with … Read more