Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors - University of London Press (original) (raw)

Preface Notes on contributors 1. Introduction David Cannadine 2. Commentary on universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors Jill Pellew 3. The English civic universities: endowments and the commemoration of benefactors H. S. Jones 4. Donors to an imperial project: Randlords as benefactors to the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science and Technology Jill Pellew 5. The expectations of benefactors and a responsibility to endow John Shakeshaft 6. The funder’s perspective Victoria Harrison 7. Calibrating relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum Laura N. K. Van Broekhoven 8. From objects of enlightenment to objects of apology: why you can’t make amends for the past by plundering the present Tiffany Jenkins 9. British universities and Caribbean slavery Nicholas Draper 10. Risk and reputation: the London blue plaques scheme Anna Eavis and Howard Spencer 11. ‘A dreary record of wickedness’: moral judgement in history Brian Young 12. We have been here before: ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ in historical context Lawrence Goldman Bibliography Index

Copyright: © Authors 2018

DOI: 10.14296/718.9781909646834

Number of illustrations: 7

Publication date: July 2018

PDF ISBN: 9781909646834

EPUB ISBN: 9781912702015

Paperback ISBN: 9781909646827

“David Cannadine writes, in a recent collection of academic papers on the issue, rising countervailing pressures also put them in a bind.”
Andrew Jack, Financial Times, 12 November 2018