Slavery & abolitionism

Images of slavery & abolitionism

Although other European countries were involved in transatlantic trade, including the trade in enslaved African peo…

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Silver service slavery: the black presence in the white home

Black Britons worked in a variety of professions; as sailors, shopkeepers, artisans, labourers, peddlers and street…

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Africans in medieval & Renaissance art: servant and attendant

A fashion for possessing black domestic servants developed in Europe in the mid 15th century. Black African servant…

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Slavery & the African diaspora reading list

Recommended reading looking at issues such as gender and the slave trade, the African diaspora and abolition.…

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European representations of Africa

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Items from Africa in the collection

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Africans in medieval & Renaissance art reading list

Recommended resources for the study of Africans in medieval & renaissance art.

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A change of heart - Fred Wilson's impact on museums

Past exhibitions & displays 2008

Listings of past major exhibitions, displays and installations that opened in the V&A in 2008.

Connections/Disconnections - International conference

The V&A's 'Connections/Disconnections' conference in 2002 brought together a number of national and international experts to contribute to a daylong debate around the relationship between museums, collections and communities.

Education project: Image & Identity

The V&A is the lead partner in the Image & Identity partnership project which includes five regional museums and galleries and NCH, the children's charity which works with some of the most vulnerable and hard to reach young people in the country. Image & Identity seeks to engage and inspire young people in responding creatively to museum collections through the visual arts.