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2021
Book chapter
The visual representation of ghosts in Early Modern Japan
An examination of representations of ghosts in early modern Japan, including paintings, woodblock prints and books, kabuki theatre and martial ghosts.Buckland, Rosina
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2023
Book chapter
A toy coach from London
Shirt study of a small lead toy from London as an example of practices of ephemera. This object probably only survives as it was discarded, perhaps after being repurposed, perhaps by a small child.Lewis, Michael
toy, ephemera, and archaeology
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2021
Book
Making Change: The Decimalisation of Britain’s Currency
On a grey, drizzly Monday, 15 February 1971, Britain went decimal. Ten years in the planning, ‘D-Day’ upended a currency system that had been unchanged for more than a millennium. A national effort requiring cooperation at every level of society, many expected decimalisation to be a disaster. This is the...Hockenhull, Tom
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2020
Book chapter
Foreword to Living with Art
This foreword to the publication by Catherine Daunt outlines how the author became involved with the collector Alexander Walker (1930-2003) and the circumstances leading to his Bequest of his collection of modern works on paper to the British MuseumCoppel, Stephen
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1994
Book
Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum
Stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period, attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control. The survival of large numbers of the seals, many dating from the period that was crucial to the development of...Granger Taylor, Hero ; Cowell, Mike ; Egan, Geoff
early modern history, medieval history, Seals, and history of textiles
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1995
Book
Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond
Twenty-four papers from a 1992 conference at the British Museum at which archaeologists and scientists met to discuss current scientific projects and approaches to the study of the Early Modern period. The essays here are divided into six themes: North American contact studies, ceramic studies, glass studies, precious metal studies,...Hook, Duncan ; Gaimster, David
metalwork, exchange, Trade, archaeology, glass studies, ceramics, and Early Modern history
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2020
Book
Living with Art: The Alexander Walker Collection
In 2004 the British Museum received a bequest of 211 modern and contemporary prints and drawings from the London-based film critic Alexander Walker (1930–2003). Undoubtedly one of the most important bequests in recent years, the acquisition of these works has transformed and significantly expanded the Museum’s collection of modern and...Daunt, Catherine
British Museum, collection, art, contemporary, modern, collector, private collection, London, critic, collecting, film, prints, artists, drawings, and art market