Knowledge Webs
Historic Houses, Global Crossroads Research Blend 3
Historic Houses, Global Crossroads Research Blend 3: Knowledge Webs
RB3 is tracing the webs of interconnection that surround the provenance and exchange of significant books, prints, drawings and maps, paying particular attention to the Irish imprints in Lady Londonderry’s Library at Mount Stewart, which reveal her surprising ‘Celtic’ interconnections. We are also investigating Dufferin and Castlereagh’s ‘self-reflective globalisation’ (Ogle, 2015) fuelled by direct experience of war, travel and imperial administration.
RB3 is collaborating with National Trust National Libraries Curator Tim Pye to produce an accessible digital animation of 40 webs of interconnection exploring printed material/drawings as dynamic media exchanged and re-contextualized across time and space.
Banner Image: Detail of Lord Londonderry’s Sitting Room at Mount Stewart, County Down | ©National Trust Images
Research Programmes
Connecting Cultures
A collaborative project revealing how historic sites can position themselves as global crossroads, enabling multiple global publics to connect their lived experience with them.
Diplomacy and Treaties
International collaboration revealing globally significant cultures of diplomacy between the Crown, the Haudenosaunee and their neighbours in North America.
Digital Storytelling
Digital resources that involve the public, advance research, energise teaching, and drive knowledge exchange, built in partnership with the UK’s foremost research software engineers.
Resource Use and Environmental Futures
Water Cultures in Conflict at Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Political Ecologies
Timely interventions that examine the power relations between Indigenous actors and the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Completed Projects
Timely interventions that examine the power relations between Indigenous actors and the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
