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This post is part of the series Perspectives on Research, commissioned as part of the Early Career Research Fellowships in Cultural and Heritage Institutions programme, funded by...

Research

Nazi-era provenance research on the National Art Library’s collection of German books

From September 2025 to March 2026, I undertook a CHASE-AHRC doctoral placement at the V&A. As part of its ongoing provenance research initiatives, my project examines the...

Re-discovering Global Ceramics in the Museum of Practical Geology

Caring for our collections

Researching the provenance of the V&A’s Ethiopian objects

Caring for our collections

What does conserving the digital look like?

Conference – Sacred Ceramics: Devotional Images in European Porcelain, 30 September 2025

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The V&A Research Institute (VARI)

Nazi-era provenance research on the National Art Library’s collection of German books

From September 2025 to March 2026, I undertook a CHASE-AHRC doctoral placement at the V&A. As part of its ongoing provenance research initiatives, my project examines the...

Meet the cast: Henry Cole’s quest for reproductions in France and Germany, 1863

(On) Her Majesty’s Service: Henry Cole on a mission to Vienna in 1851

Uncovering Henry Cole’s travel diaries: A journey through time and Europe

Georgian (Boss) Ladies and the obscure art of painting on velvet

Reconstructing the India Museum experience: some early personal visitor accounts

Borrow, Adapt, Combine: Improvising Chinese landscape scenes in late seventeenth-century London

Now Open: Doctoral Placement applications

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Africa Fashion

Fostering creativity: Mbari Artists’ and Writers’ Club

Line drawings featuring people's faces

Who Dey Shake

Woman in a black dress against a blue, cloudy backdrop

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The Karun Thakar Fund

2025 – 26 Scholarship Awards & Fund Update

Call for Scholarship Award Applications

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Architectural Models Network

Architectural Models Network

Architectural Avatars: Uncover the link!

Architectural Models Network

The value of the studio workshop

Architectural Models Network

Paper Pinnacles: The conservation of an Architectural Church Model

Architectural Models Network

Modelling Euro-centricity? Revisiting Architectural Models in the Ottoman Empire

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