Past Examples of Public Engagement

Beyond the Frame: India in Britain, 1858-1950

Led by Professor Susheila Nasta, the exhibition ‘Beyond the Frame: India in Britain, 1858-1950’ toured seven cities in India during 2011 and 2012. Profiling the extensive influence of the South Asian presence in Britain from the period of the Raj to the early years of Independence, the exhibition drew attention to this history’s ongoing relevance to British-Indian relations today. Positioned to create productive platforms for knowledge exchange, the exhibition opened dynamic global pathways for cultural dialogue and public engagement.

A related exhibition ‘South Asians Making Britain, 1858-1950’ also toured public libraries in Britain during this period. A collaborative venture between the ‘Making Britain’ project team and the British Library, the display showcased the South Asian contributions to sport, the arts, domestic, cultural and intellectual life, resistance and activism, as well as national and global politics.

For further information, please visit the South Asians Making Britain project website.

Dr Lotte Hughes’ Kenya research featured in British Academy booklet

A British Academy booklet, Working with Africa: Human and Social Science Research in Action (2011) features research carried out in Kenya with funding from a UK-Africa Partnership Scheme Award granted to Dr Lotte Hughes of the Ferguson Centre and Professor Karega-Munene, of United States International University, Nairobi. It describes the collaboration as ‘one of the British Academy's most successful UK-Africa Partnerships', emphasising the researchers’ contribution to grassroots peace-building in Kenya and three very successful inter-ethnic exchange visits for civil society stakeholders that Karega-Munene and Lotte Hughes organised in 2009-10. It also mentions the larger AHRC-funded project, ‘Managing Heritage, Building Peace: Museums, memorialisation and the uses of memory in Kenya’ (2008-2011) which this study helped Lotte Hughes to secure.

British Academy booklet 

Writing for military and counterinsurgency practitioners
by Karl Hack: February 2011

Karl Hack interviewed by Octavian Manea, 'Setting the Record Straight on the Malayan Emergency', Small Wars Journal (February 2011), Small Wars Journal, with associated Small Wars Journal blog.