Five Centuries of British Art,” takes visitors on a journey spanning the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the present. The display opens with 16th-century portraits of nobles and other symbols of empire ...

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The British Museum is back in the news after a ... Cort told her followers to ask men how often they ponder the Roman Empire, and a more recent running joke about women attracting suitors just ...

The other, the Yale Center for British Art, with its specialized collection ... She hopes to “open up questions about empire, gender, the role of women.” As universities are in jeopardy ...

So it was also with South Asia. In 1946, Sir Francis Tucker, the head of Eastern Command, proposed a British protectorate ...

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But it also explores freedom, as that changing world leads people to break with conformity, and colonised nations fight to dismantle the British empire. Art and society are inseparable ...

When Zainul Abedin left Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1947, as India and Pakistan negotiated a partition-ridden freedom from the ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

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It accompanies a new book of the same title, written by Bruce Peter, professor of design history at The Glasgow School of Art. This 3D model of the British Empire Exhibition of 1938 in ...