Connoisseurs, collectors and curators in the Victorian age, Arthur MacGregor; the context of an expanding museum, John Mack; Augustus Wollaston Franks - the cuckoo in the nest, Marjorie Caygill; a curator's curator - A.W.Franks and the Stone Age collections, Jill Cook; later prehistory and Roman Britain - the formation of the national collections, T.W.Potter; A.W.Franks and ethnography, Jonathon King; Anglo-Saxon antiquity, Leslie Webster; Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks and the medieval collections, John Cherry; European pottery and porcelain, Aileen Dawson ;Oriental pottery and porcelain, Jessica Harrison Hall;A.W.Franks and the Oxus treasure, John Curtis; sculpture from India, Michael D. Willis; Japanese antiquities, Lawrence Smith; Islamism, not an easy matter, Rachel Ward; scientific instruments, R.G.W.Anderson; the legacy of Edward Hawkins - Franks as numismatist, Luke Syson; Franks as a bookplate collector, Brian North Lee.
