General preface to series |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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I National voices |
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The Great Exhibition of 1851, London, is created |
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The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 is organised |
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The South Kensington Museum is established |
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Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks is appointed to the British Museum |
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The National Portrait Gallery, London, comes into being in 1856 |
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The India Museum experiences mixed fortunes |
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The Germanische Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, is formed |
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Museums in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, are established, 1857--61 |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, comes into being |
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is established |
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is created |
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II Institutional declarations |
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Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers describes classification and typology |
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The Musee d'Ethnographie, Paris, makes its first collections, 1877--78 |
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The British Museum debates its collecting and exhibitions policy, 1885 |
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The public are encouraged to participate in collecting natural history specimens |
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The press pleads for public support for expanding the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, 1895 |
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Collecting for natural history exhibitions in late nineteenth-century Melbourne enjoys popular support |
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Children are inspired to collect |
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The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, gathers its first collections |
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Lord Leverhulme describes the benefits of public art collections, 1915 |
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III Voices from the beyond |
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovers the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings |
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Amelia Edwards becomes a female scholar and populariser |
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Marianne Brocklehurst sails up the Nile |
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Austen Henry Layard excavates Nineveh and Babylon |
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Sir John Savile Lumley investigates the temple of Artemis at Nemi, Italy |
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Officers of the Royal Navy encounter the Inuit |
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Charles Roach Smith becomes the London archaeologist |
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Hugh Alderson Fawcett achieves a remarkable collection |
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The Harpur Crewe Family at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire |
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Charles Paget Wade creates Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire |
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The phrenologists collect heads |
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Punch reflects society back at itself |
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IV Literary voices |
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183 | (6) |
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`The Adventure of the Illustrious Client' |
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189 | (8) |
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197 | (7) |
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204 | (10) |
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214 | (7) |
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`The Death of Simon Fuge' |
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221 | (8) |
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`The Doom of the Darnaways' |
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229 | (16) |
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245 | (7) |
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252 | (6) |
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258 | (4) |
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262 | (7) |
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V Dark voices |
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The relics of murder most foul: the Red Barn |
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283 | (9) |
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292 | (7) |
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A mortal obsession: the collecting of Egyptian mummies |
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Faking it: fakes and forgeries |
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307 | (11) |
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Waterloo: the great victory |
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318 | (9) |
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A soldier's life: regimental collections |
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327 | (4) |
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Collecting the First World War |
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331 | (8) |
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339 | (5) |
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Art collections manipulated by the state |
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344 | (3) |
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Hitler's dream of art: the culture-centre at Linz |
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347 | (3) |
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Germany in 1945: concealed treasure |
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350 | (4) |
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Memorial: the Holocaust Museum |
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354 | (5) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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