
The British Museum
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A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and Linnaean plant classification. Its collections embody the raw material of empiricism - the bringing together of things to enable the widest intellectual experiment to take place.
James Hamilton explores the establishment of the Museum in the 1750s (from the bequest to the nation of the collections of Sir Hans Sloane); the chosen site of its location; the cultural context in which it came into being; the subsequent development, expansion and diversification of the Museum, both as a collection and as a building, from the early 19th to the 21st century; the controversy occasioned by some of its acquisitions; and the legacy and influence of the Museum nationally and globally.
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- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About The British Museum
- Contents
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Prologue
- 1: The Beginnings
- 2: The British Museum in the Eighteenth Century
- 3: Running the Museum in the Early Nineteenth Century
- 4: Decades of Reconstruction 1821-1846
- 5: The Mid-nineteenth Century
- 6: From the Victorian Age into the Twentieth Century
- 7: The Twentieth Century
- 8: Into the Twenty-first Century
- Appendices
- APPENDIX I: The last will and testament of Sir Hans Sloane
- APPENDIX II: Extract from the London Magazine, July 1748, pp. 317-19
- APPENDIX III: Codicil to Sir Hans Sloane's will
- APPENDIX IV: Individuals and ex officio posts named in the 1751 codicil as Trustees and Visitors to Sir Hans Sloane's Museum
- APPENDIX V: The British Museum trustees write to the Treasury, 1832
- APPENDIX VI: Timeline
- Select bibliography
- Acknowledgements and permissions
- Notes
- Index
- About James Hamilton
- The Landmark Library
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
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