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Bohrer, F.N. 1994. The times and spaces of history: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum. In Museum culture: Histories, discourses, spectacles, ed. D.J. Shearman and I. Rogoff, 197–222. Mineapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Coombes, A.E. 1994. Reinventing Africa: Museums, material culture, and popular imagination in late Victorian and Edwardian England. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Hoberman, R. 2011. Museum trouble: Edwardian fiction and the emergence of modernism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Hooper-Greenhill, E. 1992. Museums and the shaping of knowledge. London: Routledge.
Moser, S. 2006. Wondrous curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Schubert, K. 2009. The curator’s egg: The evolution of the museum concept from the French revolution to the present day. London: Ridinghouse.
Wilson, D.M., ed. 1989. The collections of the British Museum. London: British Museum Publications Ltd.
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Tully, C. (2018). British Museum. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1533-2
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