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BtH2 E1 Beyond the headlines … at Manchester Museum with Senna Yousef and Caitlin Nunn

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Episode notes

We’re out and about in this episode! Ala and Michaela have been on the road. And in this episode they visit Manchester Museum and a new project aimed at decolonising the museum collection. They are joined by members of the Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging research project—youth researcher Senna Yousef and Dr Caitlin Nunn from Manchester Metropolitan University—which retells the history of objects held by the Museum through archival research and young people’s experiences of migration.

 

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In this episode we cover …

-       Decolonising Museums

-       Participatory and arts-based methods

-       The Koh-i-noor Diamond and the British Monarch

 

Find out more about …

The Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging Project

Senna’s contribution to the exhibition ‘The Tale of Migrants’

Our headline ‘Camilla to wear recycled crown without Koh-i-Noor diamond at Coronation’

The Koh-i-Noor Diamond from these podcasts that we rate from Scrolls and Leaves and Empire

 

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