{"id":1490,"date":"2023-05-02T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/conservation\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2024-10-14T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:20:08","slug":"icom-uk-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/conservation\/2023\/05\/02\/icom-uk-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"ICOM UK 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s blog comes from Collections Registrar Morven Rodger, reflecting on the 2023 ICOM UK Conference in Glasgow, addressing legacies of colonialism nationally and internationally.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In August 2018, while on a courier trip in Washington DC, I paid a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture1<\/sup><\/a>. In one of the very first galleries I entered, a label mentioning the Earl of Dunmore caught my eye\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018In November 1775 Royal Governor of Virginia John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, issued a proclamation that offered freedom to \u201call [indentured] servants, Negroes, or others\u2026 that are able and willing to bear arms\u201d for the crown. But this promise was not fulfilled.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I recognised the name immediately. John Murray, the 4th<\/sup> Earl of Dunmore, built the Pineapple, an architectural folly a stone\u2019s throw from my hometown. I knew about the building, and the symbolic significance of the fruit, yet here I was, thousands of miles across the Atlantic, being offered a new perspective on this familiar figure. I remember being struck that I’d had to travel all this way to hear the other side of his story.<\/p>\n

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