“A powerful effect on their minds”: British Exhibitions of Technology in Abyssinia and Ashanti, 1868-74.

Dr. Ryan Patterson, Early-career researcher and contract editor, Independent, previously at University of Bristol, UK.

Ryan Patterson: I am an historian of 19th century British science, technology, and culture in colonial and imperial settings. I focus on the media coverage of expeditions into Africa during the 1860s and ‘70s, charting the influence of Victorian techno-centric ideals and views of race on the re-imagining of Africa as a colonial space