seriously this is unbelievable
https://twitter.com/profdanhicks/status/1365373119251304448
can someone close to @TristramHuntVA please persuade him that this is NOT the moment to resurrect Hugh Trevor-Roper's claim that there is no history in Africa?
even the British Museum lumps Africa and Asia with the Americas!
This proposed scheme is Trumpian in its world-view
even the British Museum lumps Africa and Asia with the Americas!
This proposed scheme is Trumpian in its world-view
the ideology that claims the global south exists outside history has a history.
the V&A scheme is almost precisely that adopted when Oxford divided collections between the multi-department @AshmoleanMuseum and the @Pitt_Rivers in 1884 — the same year as the Berlin Congress.
the V&A scheme is almost precisely that adopted when Oxford divided collections between the multi-department @AshmoleanMuseum and the @Pitt_Rivers in 1884 — the same year as the Berlin Congress.
idk if you saw this yet @Sathnam ?
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