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
Diplomacy and Treaties
International collaboration revealing globally significant cultures of diplomacy between the Crown, the Haudenosaunee and their neighbours in North America.
Resource Use and Environmental Futures
New research on the roots of American Republican environmentalism, Canada’s green future, and sustainability in the space sector.
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.
Political Ecologies
Timely interventions that examine the power relations between Indigenous actors and the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Globalising Archives, Museums, and Heritage Sites
Connecting significant national collections with their global Indigenous histories.
