Alex Watson Jones
@awatsonjones.bsky.social
V&A Provenance Research Curator
Reposted by Alex Watson Jones
"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions
This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:05 PM
"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Alex Watson Jones
Very pleased to share that my first article is now online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Curzon’s cases: making a museum at Kedleston Hall
In 1916 Lord Curzon inherited his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall, and set about planning its renovation. Part of this work was the creation of a new museum in which to display his collection of ‘Ea...
www.tandfonline.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Very pleased to share that my first article is now online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....