In Col. Colin Mackenzie, 1st Surveyor General of India/ Projects Collector Extraordinaire: selecting objects to reunite a collection Colin Mackenzie (1754-1821) was born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis but spent most of his life in India working for the East… Continue Reading →
In Travels/ Travels & Reviews Burnham Thorpe: The Nelson Connection We first stumbled across the quiet village of Burnham Thorpe in north Norfolk on a rainy day in 2009 that turned out to be… Continue Reading →
In Asian Ethnographic Collections/ Projects The Great Game & Alexander the Great: 19th century transformation in Kalasha material culture in northwest Pakistan In Autumn 2012, I first encountered the vast Asian Ethnographic Collections held at the British Museum. I knew the collections were considerable, but nothing… Continue Reading →
In Col. Colin Mackenzie, 1st Surveyor General of India/ Projects/ Travels/ Travels & Reviews In the footsteps of an East India Company official: from the Outer Hebrides to India… and back again - Part 2 Last Spring, thanks to the generosity of the Purvai Project at An Lanntair, I had the opportunity to visit Col. Colin Mackenzie’s birthplace in… Continue Reading →
In Col. Colin Mackenzie, 1st Surveyor General of India/ Projects Coins, coins, everywhere! The rediscovery of a collection at the British Museum - Part 1 In 2009, I started volunteering at the British Museum. I had come across the Masson Project which was run by Dr Elizabeth Errington in… Continue Reading →