Hidden Histories Tours
Curators at The Burrell Collection hold monthly Hidden Histories Tours exploring different aspects of the museum's magnificent collection!
About Hidden Histories Tours
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5th May 2025 2nd June 2025 |
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| 12.30pm | |
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The Burrell Collection 2060 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow South Side G43 1AT |
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| This is a free event | |
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| Visit the event website here | |
Monday 7th April: A Seat of Merchant Power: A Seventeenth-Century Walnut and Cane Chair of the Cann Family, Bristol
By the seventeenth century, Bristol became a leading port for the transatlantic slave trade with wealthy merchants such as the Cann family profiting on the rapid British colonisation of the Caribbean. A seventeenth century walnut and cane chair, carved with the Cann coat of arms, stands as an example of the luxurious commodities European plantation owners commissioned to decorate their homes.
Find out more about the Cann family and their links to the transatlantic slave trade, with Laura Bauld, Decorative Arts curator, Laura Bauld, in this short, gallery talk.
Monday 5th May: A Fashionable Accessory? Enslaved Pages in Stuart Society
A young Black boy dressed in an expensive livery holds the train of a wealthy woman's dress in an colourful embroidered panel in the Burrell Collection. But who was he and what was he doing there? Find out more about enslaved pages in the 1600s and 1700s with Rebecca Quinton, Curator of European dress and textiles in this short gallery talk.
Monday 2nd June: Britain and Haiti: A Forgotten History?
From 1791 to 1804, self-liberated enslaved people fought for their freedom in Saint Domingue freeing the colony from French rule and establishing Haiti as an independent nation. An often forgotten part of the Haitian Revolution is Britain's role and the failed attempt of the British Empire to colonise Haiti and reenslave people who were fighting for their freedom.
Find out more about Britain and the Haitian Revolution with Nelson Cummins, Curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire, in this short gallery talk.
Additional Dates: 02 June 2025
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