Rachel Bryant Davies is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and is an Early Career Associate with the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Troy, Carthage and the Victorians: The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (2018).

Erin Johnson-Williams is Assistant Professor at Durham University, UK. She is also a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow.

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive, Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams


Part I: Archival Ownership

2. 'Found in Store': Working with Source Communities and Difficult Objects at Durham University's Oriental Museum, Rachel Barclay, Lauren Barnes, Gillian Ramsay, Craig Barclay, and Helen Armstrong
3. Transforming the Archive of Slavery at the Tropenmuseum, Adiva Lawrence
4. Maqdala and the South Kensington Museum: 150 Years Later, Alexandra Watson Jones

Part II: Colonial Power

5. Encountering Colonial Science in the Visual Archive: The natural history paintings of Raja Serfoji II of Tanjore (1777-1832), David Lowther
6. Enclosing Archival Sound: Colonial Singing as Discipline and Resistance, Erin Johnson-Williams
7. The Infantilisation of Indigeneity in Colonial Australia, Roisín Laing
8. 'Some Nameless, Dreadful Wrong': Reading the Silencing of Police Rape in the Indian Colonial Archive, Deana Heath


Part III: Biographical Silences

9. Completing the Mosaic: Sara Baartman and the Archive, Tiziana Morosetti
10. Mercury, Sulphur Baths, and Fine Art: Censorship and the Sexual Health of John and Joséphine Bowes, Founders of The Bowes Museum, Judith Phillips
11. Empowering the Invisible: The Archival Legacy of Christian Cole, Philip Burnett

Part IV: Layered Archives
12. The Power of Invisibility: Nursing Nuns and Archival Gatekeeping, Jemima Short
13. The Instability and Ideology of the Archive: Archival Evidence and Nineteenth-Century British Theatre Audiences, Jim Davis
14. 'Our Mind Strives to Restore the Mutilated Forms': Nineteenth-Century Virtual Museum Tours in Children's Periodicals, Rachel Bryant Davies

Afterword, Intersectional Albertopolis, Tim Barringer

Index