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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"British Museum"”.
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The potential of digital representation: The changing meaning of the Ife ‘bronzes’ from pre-colonial Ife to the post-colonial digital British Museum
… 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 …
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… shaped the collections now on display in public museums and galleries. As an AHRC funded collaborative doctorate between the University of Cambridge and the British Museum, much of the primary source material has been drawn from the uncatalogued archives of the British Museum, documents held in …
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Florence Nightingale's autobiographical notes: A critical edition of BL Add. 45844 (England)
… for the first time, a critical edition of British Museum MS BL Add 45844, ff.1 to 242. This manuscript contains 319 of Nightingale's extant personal notes, which she made between approximately 1860 and 1902. They range in length from a few words on a scrap of paper to full pages of her …
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Analysis
… a manuscript in the Cotton Collection in the British Museum, Nero A. X. The poet has contrived that Sir Gawain's adventures take place in a poetic world carefully structured with respect to time and place. We learn of the adventure from a narrator ostensible outside of this poetic world. The …
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The paradox structure in humorous narrative: an analysis of intellectuals as comic heroes
… for the first time in French in 1759; 2) The British Museum is Falling Down written by the English writer David Lodge, published for the first time in English in 1965; and 3) Fortress Besieged written by the Chinese writer Qian Zhongshu, published for the first time in Chinese in 1947. In …
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Matthew Boulton and Francis Eginton’s mechanical paintings: production and consumption 1777 to 1781
… paintings, while collaboration with the British Museum, and their new scientific evidence, have both supported and challenged the archival evidence. This thesis seeks to prove various propositions about authenticity, the role of class and taste in the selection of artists and subjects for …
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Borders and Objects: Representing the Geopolitical in New World Art Histories, 1990-2010
… a discussion on the recent exhibition at the British Museum entitled A History of the World in 100 Objects. The dissertation will show that despite the diverse methodologies used by all of these writers and the challenges of the different media employed, all utilise concepts of borders and …
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Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th Century
… collector. The driving force behind most museum and art gallery collections of the Victorian and Edwardian period. British museum and art gallery records of gifted collections, bequests and loans usually note their donors. However, with a few notable exceptions, little is known about the …
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Computational visual reality
… replica of his patient's organ. A visitor to the British Museum in London will sketch a golden Pharaoh's headdress, illuminated by a ray of sunlight pouring in the window, never aware that the physical artifact is still in Egypt. Though such scenarios may seem cut from the pages of science …
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A Reassessment of the Work of Arthur O’Shaughnessy
… 1870 and 1881, as well as a naturalist in the British Museum from the age of nineteen until his death. The volumes of poetry attracted critical attention at their publication, but his enduring legacy has been restricted to a small number of anthologised poems. If remembered today, it is as the …
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Postmortem Economies in Art: The Carceral Value and Unrested Labour of Ensouled Museum Collections
… of how value and labour are instrumentalized in museum collections through Eurocentric discourse and its philosophical underpinnings, together with the legal apparatuses of acquisition policies and collection processes, as I draw out in particular case studies. The aim is to contribute a …
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An archaeological study of baking and bread in New Kingdom Egypt
… loaves examined, including those now held at the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Egyptian Museum, Turin. Occasional ingredients include fig, coriander and date. Barley was not an intentional addition. The analysis of starch from ancient loaves by optical and scanning electron microscopy has …
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Investigation of the presentation of Ainu identity in British museums and exhibitions
… explores how Ainu identity is presented in British museums and exhibitions, evaluating displays and their curation. Analysing these institutions through a decolonial lens, I consider: the extent to which Ainu ontologies have shaped displays; how colonial history is presented; and current …
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Repatriation claims on cultural material from former British colonies in museums in Britain and Ireland: using experiences to effect change
… for the return of cultural belongings intensify, museums in Britain and Ireland continue to fall short of the expectations of the original custodians whose cultural heritage they hold. Rooted in colonialist structures, museums maintain hierarchies and assumptions of authority that conflict with …
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The Design and Decoration of Neo-Assyrian Public Buildings
… to refer to unpublished material in the British Museum and at Istanbul. Our comments on the buildings at Kalhu, Nineveh, and Rimah embody personal observations, some unpublished. Excavation reports mix primary evidence and secondary deductions and the distinction, for reasons any …
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The Age of Insects: Gender, Class, Race and the Experience of British Entomology in the Long Nineteenth Century
… with unparalleled interest in insects across the British Isles and empire. Thus far, histories of British entomology have mostly been dominated by questions of professionalisation. But what happens if we shift the focus to experience? Specifically, the thesis explores three aspects of experience: …
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Weaving histories: cultural memory, similarity, and curatorial approach in the interpretation of Achaemenid and Safavid Persian carpets
… in London, I visited the Victoria and Albert Museum to see the Ardabil Carpet. Since 2006, however, Persian carpets at the V&A have been reclassified and displayed in the Islamic Art section; a shift that reflects a broader trend of diminishing the use of the term “Persian” in favour of …
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Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism
… in the Huntington Library and the balance at the British Museum. The main conclusions were drawn from original source material and extensive use was made of the Parker Society publications of Tudor theologians. Research also encompassed early English laws, the preaching of Dominican friars of …
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