How do Gallery exhibitions and displays reflect the diversity of Britain and the wider world?
In recent years we have mounted a series of major special loan exhibitions, including: The Raj: India and the British 1600-1947; David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa; Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters; You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé; Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers; The World's Most Photographed; and ‘Conquering England’: Ireland in Victorian London.
In recent years we have mounted numerous displays, including: Indian Princes; Discovering New Worlds: William Parry's Portrait of Omai, Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander; Before Windrush: Images of Black and Asian Figures, 1890s-1930s; In Dahomey, Photographs by Horace Ové; Anna May Wong: The London Portraits; and Cameroon - London: Portrait Photographs by Joseph Chila and Samuel Finlak.
