Between Worlds:Voyagers to Britain 1700–1850

10/03/2007

Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700–1850

Foreword by: Ekow Eshun
Professor Jos Hackforth-Jones, Professor David Bindman, Dr Stephanie Pratt and Dr Romita Ray.

'A chronicle of mutual discoveries in which individuals and cultures…are changed by the repercussions of connection.' Ekow Eshun

From the seventeenth century, largely as a result of British colonial expansion, non-European visitors to England caused widespread frissons of excitement, interest and curiosity in social circles across the capital. This book examines the complexities and ambiguities of encounters between these visitors and their British contemporaries over 150 years.

These visitors from former British colonies, including North America, the South Pacific, India and Africa; their reasons for coming and their reception in Britain were as diverse as their backgrounds. Their stories, their impressions and the impact they had on British society are examined here for the first time.

The book brings to life the fascinating accounts of a small but diverse group of fourteen individuals, including the ‘Four Indian Kings’ from Canada and Mai from the South Pacific, Raja Rammohun Roy from India and Sara Baartman from Africa. In addition to its art-historical import, this timely account is of real contemporary cultural resonance.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 8 March to 15 June 2007.

Ekow Eshun is Artistic Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
Professor Jos Hackforth-Jones is Provost and Professor of Art History at Richmond The American International University in London.
Professor David Bindman was formerly Durning –Lawrence Professor of Art at University College, London.
Dr Stephanie Pratt is Principal Lecturer in Art History at University of Plymouth, UK.
Dr Romita Ray is Assistant Professor of Art History at Syracuse University, USA.

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Press Coverage

The Times – feature in Times The Knowledge supplement by Morgan Falconer:
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New Statesman – feature by Peter Ackroyd:
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The Guardian – news story by Charlotte Higgins:
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Nightwaves BBC Radio 3:
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Saturday Review BBC Radio 4:
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The Times – review by Joanna Pitman:
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The Times – Column by Ben Macintyre:
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Metro – review by Fisun Guner:
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CBC TV – Harry Forestell report and interview with Dr Lilly Koltun
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Others not on website but will be included in the paper copies

Mail on Sunday – review by Philip Hensher
BBC The World Service, The World Today (interview with Jos Hackforth Jones)
BBC History Magazine
Art Quarterly

Forthcoming (running dates tbc)

Guardian Review – essay by Linda Colley
Daily Telegraph – review
Financial Times – review
CBC Radio – interview with Stephanie Pratt for CBC’s new national arts show scheduled for 21 March to be broadcast mid April

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