The Aclands of Killerton: Remaking Imperial Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century

基勒顿的阿兰兹：在漫长的十九世纪重塑大不列颠帝国

• 批准号: 2908503
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2908503
• 关键词: Aclands; Killerton; Remaking; Imperial; Britain

The Acland family archives would be the chief source for my proposed project, which is a collaborative doctoral awardbetween Cambridge University and the National Trust. The key theme of my proposed project is understanding theAcland family's 'mission' in the long nineteenth century, that is the motivations and beliefs which underpinned theiractions and enterprises as a family and as individuals. I plan to explore this idea through the Aclands' connections toempire, particularly their antislavery beliefs. My project will contribute most to three broad fields of historiography;histories of elite families; the Victorian antislavery movement; and spatial histories of the British Empire. I propose anapproach that foregrounds the Acland family house, Killerton, as the site on which the family's global connectionsconverged and where their different individual missions coalesced. Could the various campaigns undertaken by differentfamily members, as dictated by social roles and hierarchies, all form part of one overarching mission? Furthermore, thefocus on the home would retrieve from the margins voices and groups often excluded from or with limited capacity inpublic life: notably women, children, and household staff. My project would join the 'global turn' in history whilstmaintaining the specificity of local contexts. It would also contribute to an important body of work that seeks toreunderstand the antislavery movement without lionizing it.

Acland家族的档案将是我提议的项目的主要来源，这是剑桥大学和国家信托基金会之间的合作博士学位。我所提出的项目的关键主题是理解Acland家族在漫长的世纪的“使命”，即作为一个家庭和个人，支撑他们行动和企业的动机和信念。我计划通过阿克兰与帝国的联系，特别是他们的反奴隶制信仰来探索这个想法。我的项目将最有助于史学的三个广泛领域;精英家庭的历史;维多利亚时代的反奴隶制运动;和大英帝国的空间历史。我提出了一种方法，突出了Acland家族的房子，Killerton，作为家庭的全球联系汇聚的地方，也是他们不同的个人使命融合的地方。不同的家庭成员所进行的各种运动，按照社会角色和等级制度的规定，是否都能构成一个总体使命的一部分？此外，对家庭的关注将从边缘重新获得经常被排除在公共生活之外或能力有限的声音和群体：特别是妇女、儿童和家庭工作人员。我的项目将加入历史上的“全球转向”，同时保持地方背景的特殊性。这也将有助于一个重要的工作机构，寻求重新理解反奴隶制运动，而不是崇拜它。