Acknowledgements + Sources

Acknowledgements

The curatorial team would like to thank the module organisers Dr Thomas Kador, Prof Helen Chatterjee and Dr Bill Sillar, for running the module Object Lessons: Communicating Knowledge Through Collections and allowing us to create our exhibition ‘Hierarchies: the power of manmade’. We would also like to thank the curators of UCL’s collections for allowing us to work with the objects and answering our questions.

 

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