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Evaluation contract for Abyssinia: re-appraising a colonial era legacy of the King’s Own Royal Regiment

We are seeking an experienced evaluator for the Abyssinia project which is being run by Lancaster City Museums in partnership with the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum Trust.

‘Abyssinia: re-appraising a colonial era legacy of the King’s Own Royal Regiment’ aims to develop the participative practice of the King’s Own Trustees and Lancaster City Museums with regard to the Regiment’s colonial-era service.

The project is currently researching the objects that came into the King’s Own collections from the Abyssinia Expedition, and they will soon be placed online in a more accessible form and context than is currently the case.

We are just starting the work of engaging with both the Ethiopian community within this country as well as the Regimental family, Lancaster University’s Decolonisation Network and the Lancaster Black History Group.

This work will then be brought together into a re-interpretation of the area of the museum that addresses the Abyssinia Expedition.

The final stage of the project will see the completion of a Restitution & Repatriation Policy for the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum Trust and Lancaster City Museums.

With this project we aim to take a significant step forward in terms of addressing the colonial-era legacy of the Regiment. Telling the regimental story in the context of the colonial-era is challenging, but we hope that this project will help to provide a much-needed way forward for other small regimental museums.

The evaluation contract is scheduled to last until end December 2025 and the contract value is £6,000.

Please see the attached Evaluation brief (PDF, 116KB). Applications should be received by 23:59 on 30 November 2024 and be sent to Carolyn Dalton, Museum Development Manager at cdalton@lancaster.gov.uk

The project is funded by MA/Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund.