https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/ The latest from GHCC » Global History and Culture Centre Blog (tag [The James Collection]) en-GB (C) 2026 University of Warwick Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:53:12 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss SiteBuilder2, University of Warwick, http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder Abyan Scheme Adrianna Catena African History alchemy Americas Amy Evans Andes Anne Gerritsen anti-colonialism Argentina Art History Asian History Basque nationalism Benjamin T. Smith Bertie Mandelblatt Black Lives Bobby Tam British Empire Camilo Uribe Botta cartography Catriona Sharples Cheng He Chile Chris Hess Climate History Cold War Collections Colombia covid-19 David Anderson Decolonisation Digital Humanities Diplomacy Drugs East Africa Economic history Egypt Emanuele Podda Emma Orchardson Environmental History Ethiopia European Conference on African Studies European history Far Right Fleur Martin Food History Foundling Hospital French History Gender Geoffrey Parker GHCC Global History Guido van Meersbergen Guillemette Crouzet Hannah Dennett Helen Clifford Historiography History of Science History of Science and Technology Hong Kong Human Rights Imperial History Imperialism Industrialisation Interdisciplinarity Italy Jack Bowman James Poskett Jeremy Adelman Jessica Lambert Jim Hulbert Josh Patel Joshua Grey Kären Wigen Kendrick Lamar Kenya Labour History Lacquer Latin America Lisa Taberner Liz Egan Malawi Young Pioneers Maria Reyes Baztán material culture Mathilde Alain Mau Mau Maxine Berg Media Mexico Michael Bycroft Microhistory Museums Music Neoliberalism Networks Nicolás Gómez Baeza Niels Boender Orchids Pan-Africanism pandemic Patagonia PhD public health racism Reading Group Rhodesia Robert Fletcher Rose Miyonga Russia Sergei Zotov Serin Quinn SIngapore Social History Somak Biswas Sophie Greenway Sweet potato Television The James Collection Tirthankar Roy Transnational history Travel Trevor Burnard USSR V&A War of the Locust White nationalism William Harrop Yemen Zhu Jing Zimbabwe Untagged https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/the_james_collection <div class="news-thumbnail" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><img class="thumbnail" width="100" height="100" src="https://warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/file/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog?sbrPage=%2Ffac%2Farts%2Fhistory%2Fghcc%2Fblog&newsItem=8a1785d87ef8364f017f21f816ab18cb" alt="image"></div><p>Europeans who ‘explored’ and hunted in eastern Africa in the later nineteenth century engaged local caravan traders to act as guides and protectors on their journeys from the coast to the interior. Each with loads carried by more than 200 porters, caravans brought trade goods into the region, and took out the material culture collected by the Europeans. <b>Fleur Martin</b> discusses how these processes of exchange &ndash; and theft &ndash; can be understood, highlighting the violence and agency that lies behind imperial collections in a case study of the James brothers’ journeys through Somalia and Sudan. Their collection of eastern African material cultural heritage is now housed at West Dean, an arts and conservation college in Sussex.</p> Fleur Martin Global History British Empire material culture East Africa The James Collection Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:06:20 GMT 8a1785d87ef8364f017f21f816ab18cb