Grantee: Hallie Nell Swanson In summer 2019, with the support of The Barakat Trust’s Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award, I travelled to Hyderabad to take part in the “Working in an Indian Archive” Indo-Persian Summer School, a workshop focused on reading Indo-Persian manuscripts, run by the University [...]
Join Arthur Bijl for a revealing conversation about the forgotten meanings of arms and armour, once a global symbol of male status, fashion and identity. Arthur draws upon the magnificent Wallace Collection to challenge our understanding of what we think of today simply as 'weapons'. He tell us the [...]
Mehreen Chida-Razvi takes us on a journey to one of the 'New Seven Wonders of the World': the Taj Mahal. This podcast explores the daring love story behind the building and the many aspects of a landmark that has come to embody the cultures of India. Mehreen Chida-Razvi is an art [...]
