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Traces the impact of world events on St Helena's topography, ecology and human population, from the early 1500s to the present day.

A full examination of the India Museum's founding manifesto and evolving ambitions. The museum of the East India Company formed, for a large part of the nineteenth century, one of the sights of London. In recent years, little has been remembered of it beyond its mere existence, while an assumed negative role has been widely attributed to it on the basis of its position at the heart of one of Britain's arch-colonialist enterprises. Extensively ...

A full examination of the India Museum's founding manifesto and evolving ambitions. The museum of the East India Company formed, for a large part of the nineteenth century, one of the sights of London. In recent years, little has been remembered of it beyond its mere existence, while an assumed negative role has been widely attributed to it on the basis of its position at the heart of one of Britain's arch-colonialist enterprises. Extensively ...

Detailed illustrated catalogue of the continental collection of objects dated from the Roman to the early Medieval periods housed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The bulk of items entered the museum through the collection of Sir John Evans. Published inassociation with the Ashmolean Museum.

This publication comprises a complete inventory of the Ashmolean Museum's holdings of metalwork in gold, silver, copper-alloy and lead, dating from the early Anglo-Saxon period (fifth to seventh century AD). Each of almost 1, 200 items (including the Amherst and Monkton composite brooches, the Ixworth cross and the Tostock buckle) is described and illustrated, chemical analyses are given for numerous examples and a full bibliography is provide...

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Company Curiosities offers the first-ever overview of the remarkable role of the East India Company and its servants in collecting and showcasing a treasure-house of natural specimens and man-made objects.

Given the competing demands of routine museum life, the tackling of a project in the nature of the present volume is not to be lightly undertaken. Many hours of painstaking transcription are demanded, followed by the incorporation of innumerable revisions and refinements as broad structure, essential detail and shades of nuance all emerge.' Thus begins the second part of editor Arthur MacGregor's publication of the Ashmolean Museum's Manuscrip...

Updated with photographs, this is a reprint of the original 1985 edition.

Reveals the fascinating history of the cabinet of curiosities belonging to the Cobbe family, who created it around 1750 at Newbridge House and developed it over the following century. In this book, the enormous range of surviving objects and specimens is illustrated by photographs and has been catalogued by scholars in the respective fields.

Facsimile. Originally published: London: Croom Helm, 1985.

Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honour by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn, are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and Peter Hill's papers, Chris Loveluck discusses the implications of the findings from the newly-discovered settlement at Flixborough in Lincolnshire, Nancy Edwards describes the early monumental sculptu...

The figure of Sir John Evans might stand as an exemplar for so many aspects of Victorian virtue. From beginnings as a clerk in the paper industry, he rose by hard work and astute judgement to the peak of his profession. This work examines his significance in a study that establishes his place in the canon of leading figures of Victorian society.