Sir Stamford Raffles’ collections: creating Indonesia’s Hindu-Buddhist past. Thursday, 7 November 2019, 1.30pm – 2.30pm
British Museum Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG This talk by Alexandra Green, Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia, explored Sir Stamford Raffles’ collections of Hindu-Buddhist artefacts and drawings collected during his time as Lieutenant-Governor of the island of Java, now part of Indonesia. The objects housed in the British Museum enabled Raffles to construct…