Victorian Museums and Victorian Society

This article explores how the study of museums intersects with key aspects of Victorian historiography. A large scholarship on museums has developed as part of the larger, multidisciplinary effort to understand modernity in general, and Victorian society in particular, in terms of power, culture, an...

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Main Author: Woodson-Boulton, Amy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2008
In: History compass
Year: 2008, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-146
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