Travelling Ayahs in the British Empire: CSH Seminar
Delving into the stories of individuals travelling ayahs from a wide range of sources, this talk will illuminate their influences on British consumption cultures, their brave struggle to assert their rights, and more.
The seminar is convened by the Centre for Studies of Home, Centre for the Study of the 19th Century and its Legacies, and Public Humanities Network, all in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London.
Travelling Ayahs in the British Empire: A History of Counterflows, Care and Personal Relationships
The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonisers and the colonised. This seminar will focus on the largely forgotten group of South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who traveled between India and Britain while caring for British families on the move, influenced the various consumptions in British homes, and held certain privileges in "homes in crisis."
Delving into the stories of individual travelling ayahs from a wide range of sources, this talk will illuminate their influences on British consumption cultures, their brave struggle to assert their rights, and more.
The seminar and discussion will be followed by a drinks reception.
Related
Housewarming: A Victorian Home from Kolkata to London
Dr Arunima Datta will also be speaking at our next Museum Late at Museum of the Home on Thursday 27 March. Book now for late gallery access, creative activities, DJ sets, and a tour of the period room depicting the story of an ayah in 1878.
Date
Wednesday 26 March
Time
4pm-6pm
Cost
Free
Location
School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS