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Kim, Seong Eun. "Artists' intervention in 'universal' museums as traced through the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508580.

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Baker, Abigail. "Ancient narratives in the modern museum : interpreting classical archaeology in British museums." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2015. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/130/.

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This thesis considers how the stories preserved in Greek and Roman texts have been used in British museums from the early nineteenth century to the present. It explores the tendency to prioritise textual over visual information which is easy to overlook when dealing with object-based institutions. It demonstrates the pervasive effect that ancient texts and the narratives they convey have had on the way museums think about individual objects, wider history and their own role as public institutions. A series of case studies offer snapshots of the relationship between object and text at different

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Cash, Derek. "Access to museum culture : the British Museum from 1753 to 1836." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361866.

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Cash, Derek James. "Access to museum culture : the British Museum from 1753 to 1836." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627652.

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Inoue, Yuka. "Museum education and international understanding : representations of Japan at the British Museum." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020489/.

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This study examines how 'Japan' has been represented at the British Museum, and how the Japanese collection and exhibitions have contributed to the promotion of international understanding as defined by UNESCO in 1974. I address the research questions: - How has Japan been represented at the British Museum, and how does the 'Discovering Japan' exhibition fit within this context? (Part 2) - What perceptions did British pupils have of Japanese culture and people, and how did these change after the visit? (Part 3) - What understanding (that is appreciation and interest) did these pupils have of J

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Rositani, Annunziata. "Rīm-Anum texts in the British museum /." Messina : DiScAM, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41285218f.

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Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard. "A British museum era : modernist artists and authors in London's museums, 1905-1918." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486968.

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This study considers the role of London's museums - especially the British Museum - as conduits for the delivery of extra-European visual art to the city's avant-garde during the years preceding World War One. It makes use of documents from the archives of the British Museum, the British Library, the Tate Gallery, the V&A, and the Royal Institute of British Architects - many of which have never before been quoted from or published - to show that the early modernist sculpture of Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Eric Gill; the philosophy of T.E. Hulme; and the poetic imagery of Ezra Poun

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Liu, Wan-Chen. "An exploratory, descriptive study of art museum educators' attitudes in regard to art museum-elementary school collaboration." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0028/NQ38931.pdf.

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Howells, Daniel Thomas. "Late antique gold glass in the British Museum." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6351/.

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The British Museum holds one of the largest and most important collections of Late Antique gold glasses in the world, numbering over fifty pieces. However, the collection has never been fully examined or analysed and the standard reference works on the medium are well over 100 years old. This thesis uses the British Museum collection to offer a new and in-depth case study of gold glass which reconsiders the traditional but untested set of interpretations that have been in circulation since the mid-nineteenth century and before. Chapter One examines the history of gold glass scholarship from th

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James, Kirstin Ares. "Gifting culture : comparing display practice at the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37196.

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Indigenous Research Methodology (IRM) is an approach to research defined by members of Indigenous Nations for research of topics that directly concern them (their communities, their families). Gifting Culture constitutes the first time that this approach has been applied to museums studies (in the UK). What is meant by this, is that while it could be argued that any Indigenous museum practitioner conducting museums research on the topic of their own culture, is conducting ‘Indigenous research’, they are generally using (or are required to use) Euro-Western, positivistic approaches to research

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Ford, Christopher Martin. "The theatre-in-museum movement in the British Isles." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/243/.

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Throughout the 1980's and early 1990's, it became increasingly apparent to interested observers that there was a growing trend towards using theatre in museum settings. The work was varied, ranging from single costumed characters working on galleries to help interpret for visitors items in the collection, to literally hundreds of re-enactors creating entire battle scenarios watched by thousands of visitors. This study considers the ideas and methods behind the various styles of theatre which have emerged in British museums and questions what it is that both theatre and museum professions think

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Kehoe, Elisabeth Sara. "The British Museum : the cultural politics of a national institution." Thesis, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250176.

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Andersson, Emma. "Kvinnogestaltning i utställningar : Hur det berättas om kvinnor i antika kulturer." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-370030.

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This study examines how women are represented in exhibitions about the ancient cultures of Greece, Rome and Egypt. The two museums which have been studied are the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and the British Museum in London. Observations of the exhibitions, notes and interviews with museum personnel are the methods used in this study. The theory used is gender theory, focussing on Yvonne Hirdman’s gender system. The purpose of the study is to examine how the museums are working with representing women in ancient cultures, what objects are exhibited that re

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Nikolaou, Polina. "The diaspora of Cypriot antiquities and the British Museum, 1860-1900." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14988.

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This thesis examines the invention of Cyprus’ ancient history through the diaspora of Cypriot antiquities in the latter half of nineteenth century and the role of the modern museum in it (1860-1900). It maps the movement of the objects from their excavation sites, to their circulation in metropolitan museums and, finally to their display in museum galleries. In doing so this thesis explores the emergence of archaeology as a field-based discipline in the broader colonial, imperial and geopolitical context. The research of this project was conducted mainly at the Cyprus State Archives, the Greek

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Kwasman, Theodore. "Neo-Assyrian legal documents in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum /." Roma : Ed. Pontificio istituto biblico, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35702502t.

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Mikasa, Princess Akiko of. "Collecting and displaying 'Japan' in Victorian Britain : the case of the British Museum." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669978.

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Vider, Jaanika. "Marginal anthropology? : rethinking Maria Czaplicka and the development of British anthropology from a material history perspective." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1e8a95a0-b3a8-4886-9e28-7a5fb4d111e3.

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This thesis explores the history of British anthropology at the start of the twentieth century through a biographical focus on Maria Antonina Czaplicka (1884-1921). The title calls into question the marginalisation of people and processes in the history of anthropology that do not explicitly contribute to the dominant lineage of British social anthropology and offers to add depth and nuance to the narrative through analysis stemming from material sources. I use Czaplicka as a case study to demonstrate how close attention to a seemingly marginal person with an incomplete and scattered archival

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Clark, Alison. "Conversations in Country : Tiwi and Yirandali Indigenous Australian collections in the British Museum." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/conversations-in-country(a3d31cdd-0b2e-4519-8185-947008032ab7).html.

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This thesis reassesses the Tiwi collections made by Jessie Sinclair Litchfield, and the Yirandali collections compiled by Mary Montgomerie Bennett, which are held at the British Museum, in order to understand their place in the history of indigenous settler relations in Australia. Both collections are entangled in the history of Aboriginal and settler relations, and understanding these relations will enable museums to give voice to the multiple dialogues the collections contain. In this way we can renew the significance of these collections for both museums and indigenous communities. Thus my

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Slioa, Silvia. "Visuella rekonstruktioner av skulpturer i Assurnasirpal II:s tronsal och utställningstekniker på British Museum." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296398.

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The purpose of my study is to analyze Assyrian sculptures in the palace of Nimrud from throne room of Aššur-nāṣir-apli northwest palace. My research will be to compare sculptures with a theoretical as well as practical issue in the design of the galleries. Images of supernatural beings would be set up at entrances to palaces and temples. Assyrians called sculptures Lamassū (from written Sumerian references LAM(M) (A) lord of horizons, guardian of the Assyrian Gate. Lamassū are both flanked at the doorways from the throne room of Aššur-nāṣir-apli`s northwest palace. The exact meaning is not cle

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Ada, Obiageli Nsugbe Emma. "Structure, curvature and movement : the application of organicism to architecture using mathematics and computer programming to generate form." Thesis, University of Bath, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340978.

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Christie, Andrew. "Aristophanes' Hiccups - The Aesthetics of Incapacity." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20033.

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Aristophanes’ Hiccups: Aesthetics of Incapacity contextualises the works which make up Dear Sincere Friend initially exhibited at Bondi Pavilion Gallery in 2018. Primarily drawing inspiration from the longstanding debate concerning the British Museum’s continued possession of the Parthenon Marbles, the work and this paper adopt the position that to impart a sense of authenticity as well as promote political action art must embrace its own limits and by extension channel the power of a process-based practice. Whether through manipulated 3D prints (generated from unapproved scans taken by the ar

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Dolan, Brian. "Governing matters : the values of English education in the Earth Sciences, 1790-1830." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273089.

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Langebeek, Renske. "Les musées d'histoire naturelle de Leyde, Paris et Londres : analyse de l'évolution et du mode d'exposition des objets de musées d'histoire naturelle jusqu'aux premières années du XIXe siècle ; comparaison entre le "s' Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie" de Leyde, le Museum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris et le "British Museum" de Londres." Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MNHN0013.

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La recherche analysera l’évolution et le mode d’exposition des objets de musées d’histoire naturelle du XIXe siècle jusqu’à la première décennie du XXe siècle, période où en dehors du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris et le « British Museum » de Londres, le Musée national d’Histoire naturelle de Leyde prendra une place centrale. Le premier chapitre décrira la création des collections d’histoire naturelle en Hollande du XVIe siècle jusqu’à la création du musée d’histoire naturelle en 1820. Le deuxième chapitre portera sur la création des musées nationaux d’histoire naturelle et l’ob

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Eladany, Abeer. "A study of a selected group of third intermediate period mummies in the British Museum." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-study-of-a-selected-group-of-third-intermediate-period-mummies-in-the-british-museum(ffbf2cfd-9f61-4759-aac4-6aff2fab3adb).html.

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Mummies have been considered as 'biologic museums' as they display vital evidence and clues about the life and death of the ancient Egyptian population who lived thousands of years ago. They also hold the secrets of the evolution of disease. The Third Intermediate Period mummies represent the mummification technique at its best. The main aim of this research is to produce a scientific study of the Third Intermediate Period mummies in the British Museum. It attempts to answer some important questions and considers to what extent a detailed radiographic investigation of a group of mummies can pr

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Kozak, Zenobia. "Promoting the past, preserving the future : British university heritage collections and identity marketing." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/408.

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Collections of tangible heritage and material culture found in university museums present both challenges and opportunities for their parent institutions. The identification and recognition of objects and collections of material ‘heritage’ proves difficult to universities, due to the formation and utilisation of their collections. Although each university possesses a history of varied content, length and significance, the rich heritage collections kept by universities remain undefined and largely unknown. This thesis addresses new and changing roles for university museums and collections, focu

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Foundoulakis, Vassiliki. "The icon of orthodoxy in the British Museum : an example of late 14th century Constantinopolitan art." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298221.

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Edgington-Brown, Luke. "The international origins of Japanese archaeology : William Gowland and his Kofun collection at the British Museum." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/67858/.

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This thesis is an in-depth analysis of the Gowland Collection of Kofun period objects held by the British Museum. Throughout the text, the collection has been reorganised and interpreted through a careful study of its associated archive materials and its place in a historical context as both a late 19th century museum collection and as a 5th to 6th century AD Japanese Kofun period collection. William Gowland sold his collection of Kofun period objects to the British Museum in 1889. As Gowland had an early interest in archaeology, this included carefully recorded objects from multiple sites, at

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Girardon, Sheila Patricia. "Italic votive terracotta heads from the British Museum : a stylistic appraisal in their religious and historical settings." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1349436/.

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The thesis aims to examine a collection of Italic votive terracotta heads, dated between the early 4th and the late 2nd centuries B.C., in the British Museum. The study proposes a stylistic appraisal of the terracotta heads in their religious and historical settings divided into three parts. The first part includes the introduction and five chapters. In the first chapter is discussed the religious background: Greek healing gods) Italic and Roman healing cults and Aesculapios. The second chapter is concerned with the religiousness of the Italic peoples: their devoutness; the cults; the practice

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Jursa, Michael. "Die Landwirtschaft in Sippar in Neubabylonischer Zeit /." Wien : Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37702488c.

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Koskas, Mathilde Mouren Raphaële. ""As choice a parcel of books as any in England" la collection de manuscrits Harley, une collection fondatrice du British Museum /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2008. http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-1975.

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Floe, Hilary Tyndall. "The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1965-1982) : exhibitions, spectatorship and social change." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8ecada55-921a-4e6f-a279-92fd2313d459.

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This thesis examines the first seventeen years of the history of the Museum of Modern Art Oxford (MOMA), from its founding in 1965 until c. 1982. It is concerned with the changing relationships between the museum and its audience, focusing on those aspects of the museum's programming that shed light on its role as a public mediator of recent art. This provides a means to consider the underlying values and commitments that informed MOMA's emergence as a leading contemporary art institution. Chapter one examines the museum's relationship to utopian countercultures through the metaphor of the mus

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Stiles, Emily. "Narrative, object, witness : the story of the Holocaust as told by the Imperial War Museum, London." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2016. http://repository.winchester.ac.uk/808/.

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On June 7, 2000, the Holocaust’s position as an official part of British history and memory became solidified with the opening of a permanent Holocaust exhibition within London’s Imperial War Museum. This important national museum embodies Britain's cultural memory of war, of which the Holocaust has become a central part. Situated within debates of museology and memory, this thesis offers a compelling case study on the performative role of the museum in the construction of an official Holocaust memory within Britain and its relationship to national identity. While the Holocaust has become a ‘m

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Jenkins, Ian. "'The progress of civilisation' : the acquisition and arrangement of the sculpture collections of the British Museum, 1802-1860." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285039.

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Robbirt, Karen Mary. "Phenological responses of British orchids and their pollinators to climate change : an assessment using herbarium and museum collections." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/43163/.

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Climate change might de-couple plant-pollinator relationships if species respond differentially to environmental cues, such as temperature, but studies have been hindered by lack of long-term data. This research validates natural history collections as a source of long-term phenological data and, using these data, investigates the phenological responses to temperature of flowering in British orchids and flight in their pollinators. Herbarium specimens of O. sphegodes collected in the UK between 1848 and 1958 were compared to direct observation of peak flowering time in one population located i

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Bakkor, Hussein [Verfasser]. "Zur Repräsentation von Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients in großen europäischen Museen : Die Analyse der Dauerausstellungen in den vorderasiatischen Museen im Louvre, British Museum und Pergamonmuseum / Hussein Bakkor." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1033062618/34.

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Adler, Allison Marie. "Becoming and being at the crossroads : challenging borders at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62750.

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This paper explores how the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) creates exhibitions on conditions associated with globalization, such as transnationalism and migration. This has been a particular focus of the museum since the completion of an expansion project, officially titled “A Partnership of Peoples” (2006-2010), which sought to establish MOA as an internationally renowned museum of world art and culture. Guided by art historian Saloni Mathur’s question, “what kind of ideological work is sustained by [a] particular notion of the ‘global’?” this paper e

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Morrison, Barrs Eanna. "'Great British Fashion Is...' : An Institutional Analysis of Vogue and the V&A." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184198.

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Both the fashion magazine and the fashion exhibition are powerful and authoritative sites for the representation, interpretation, and construction of fashion. Despite various intersections between the two, their relationship has remained relatively unstudied. This thesis aims to reveal and problematize the relationship between leading institutions in the United Kingdom: British Vogue and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). An analysis of British Vogue’s content and the V&A’s fashion exhibitions of Vivienne Westwood: 34 Years in Fashion (2004) and Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (201

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Stylianou, Nicola Stella. "Producing and collecting for Empire : African textiles in the V&A 1852-2000." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2012. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/6141/.

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The aim of this project is to examine the African textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum and how they reflect the historical and cultural relationship between Britain and Africa. As recently as 2009 the V&A’s collecting policy stated ‘Objects are collected from all major artistic traditions … The Museum does not collect historic material from Oceania and Africa south of the Sahara’ (V&A 2012 Appendix 1). Despite this a significant number of Sub-Saharan African textiles have come into the V&A during the museum’s history. The V&A also has a large number of textiles from North Africa, both as

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Sawyers, Amanda G. "“I’ve Been Given the Wrong Mother:” Reconsidering Absent Mothers in Postmodern British Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3506.

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Nineteenth-century British authors, in particular, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, and Jane Austen, often turned to orphaned children as a means to drive the plot of their novels. While struggles such as displacement were often accurately depicted, the abovementioned authors and their contemporaries often glossed over or completely disregarded the trauma and psychological implications felt by these orphans. As psychology gained prominence as a discipline through the works of Sigmund Freud and others, modern British literature saw a shift in its consideration of orphans and, additionally, em

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Jördens, Andrea. "Vertragliche Regelungen von Arbeiten im späten griechischsprachigen Ägypten : mit Editionen von Texten der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung, des Istituto Papirologico "G.Vitelli", des Ägyptischen Museums zu Kairo und des British Museum, London /." Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400859166.

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Thomas, Siân Elizabeth. "Ptolemaic Gebelein : an exploration of legal, social and topographical themes based on unpublished documents for money and cessions in the British Museum." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611471.

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Doyle, Alice. ""The Essence of Greekness": The Parthenon Marbles and the Construction of Cultural Identity." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1209.

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This thesis explores the relationship between the Classical Greek legacy and today’s world by examining the past two hundred years of controversy surrounding Lord Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon Marbles from Athens. Since the Marbles were purchased by the British Museum in 1816, they have become symbols of democratic values and Greek cultural identity. By considering how the Parthenon Marbles are talked about by different people over the years, from art connoisseurs and Romantic poets of the early 19th century to nationalist political activists of the late 20th century, this thesis demonstrat

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Sogbesan, Oluwatoyin Zainab. "The potential of digital representation : the changing meaning of the Ife 'bronzes' from pre-colonial Ife to the post-colonial digital British Museum." Thesis, City, University of London, 2015. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17212/.

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For many years, meanings and interpretations of artefacts that are taken to represent African culture including the Ife bronzes have been predominantly produced and fixed by a team of western curatorial experts (Ciolfi, 2012). Such museum practices have prevented visitors and the people being represented by the artefact from participating in the process of interpretation and meaning-making. In the particular case of the ‘Ife bronzes’, the previous meaning and implications of the Ife ‘bronzes’ as part of ‘the cradle of the world’, according to Yoruba oral traditions, are yet to be given the amo

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Murray, Katie. "Memorials of endurance and adventure : exhibiting British polar exploration, 1819-c.1939." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11087.

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Over eighty polar-themed exhibitions were held in Britain between 1819 and the 1930s, a time of intense exploration of both the Arctic and Antarctic. These varied from panoramas and human exhibits to displays of ‘relics', equipment, photographs and artwork, waxworks and displays shown as part of a Great Exhibition. This period also saw the creation of the first dedicated polar museums. These displays were visited by thousands of people throughout the country, helping to mediate the subject of exploration for a public audience. Despite this, the role exhibitions played in forming popular views

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Summerfield, Angela. "Interventions : twentieth-century art collection schemes and their impact on local authority art gallery and museum collections of twentieth-century British art in Britain." Thesis, City, University of London, 2007. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17420/.

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In the twentieth century, collecting became a core activity of local authority art galleries and museums in Britain. A key feature of these art collections was the representation of Twentieth Century British Art. The aim of this study is to examine, for the first time, this development as abroad cultural phenomenon, through the distinctive roles played by central government-funded, and independent national and provincial art collection schemes. The central government-funded art collection schemes are the V. & A Purchase Grant Fund, War Artists' Advisory Committee and the National Heritage Memo

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Mameni-Bushor, Sara. ""Failed and Fell: Fell to Fail" : the narration of history in the works of Tacita Dean and Jeremy Deller." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2530.

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This Thesis is concerned with how history is narrated in two selected works by the British artists, Tacita Dean and Jeremy Deller. Chapter one considers Deller's The Battle of Orgreave (2001), a reenactment of a violent miners' strike against Margaret Thatcher's government in 1984-1985. The reenactment brought together reenactment hobbyist and ex-miners to perform the events at Orgreave and created a discourse around the imagined historical role of the working classes. Chapter two examines Dean's book Teignmouth Electron (1999), which recounts the failed voyage of Donald Crowhurst, one of the

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Parsons, Thad. "Science collection, exhibition, and display in public museums in Britain from World War Two through the 1960s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:16cadaac-fb44-4edf-9063-d6ee6a9ffd09.

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Science and technology is regularly featured on radio, in newspapers, and on television, but most people only get ﬁrsthand exposure to ‘cutting-edge’ technologies in museums and other exhibitions. During this period, the Science Museum was the only permanent national presentation of science and technology. Thus, it is important to acknowledge the Museum’s history and the socio-political framework in which it operated. Understanding the delays in the Museum’s physical development is critical, as is understanding the gradual changes in the Museum’s educational provision, audience, and purpose. W

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Esposto, Maria Luigina <1972&gt. "La battaglia dell'Arte per l'Arte. Il British Museum e il Greek and Roman Antiquities Department durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale: il salvataggio della collezione Greca." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14573.

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Il 3 Settembre 1939 la Gran Bretagna dichiarava guerra alla Germania nazista di Hitler. Iniziava così la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Una guerra che coinvolse tutto e tutti anche il settore artistico-museale dei paesi Europei interessati dalle operazioni belliche. Memori di quanto era accaduto durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale, il Governo Inglese e i direttori dei musei, delle gallerie e delle biblioteche nazionali delinearono le linee guida per salvare i tesori che formavano il patrimonio artistico della nazione fin dal Novembre 1933. Una data precoce che permise alle realtà museali inglesi di pre

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Joscelyn, Morgan T. "British Imperialism Of The Ottoman Empire Gender, Nationalism, And Cultural Changes." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/914.

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British imperialism of the Ottoman Empire is analyzed in terms of power and influence. Changes in gender roles, nationalism, and culture are all examined through the lens of imperialism. The discourse flows thematically and discusses brief histories of both Britain and the Ottoman Empire. The construction of the Imperial Museum created a unified image of the nation through the collection of material items. As a result of European imperialism, the Ottoman Empire developed a sense of national culture.

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Smith, Lindsey. "Pewter tableware : its function, significance and contribution to our understanding of life in Roman Britain through a case-study of material held in the British Museum." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558791.

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Romano-British pewter vessels have often been interpreted as functional, utilitarian pieces, which served as the typical dining equipment of wealthy villa owners in Late Roman Britain. A substantial collection of over 100 Romano-British pewter vessels held by the British Museum provides a case study from which to investigate the functional aspects of use alongside themes relating to wider social, economic, religious and art-historical issues. While this material often lacks detailed contextual information, it does represent one of the largest collections ofRomano-British pewter and is the firs

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