Making History

by Starkey, David; Gaimster, David; Nurse, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9781905711031
• ISBN10: 1905711034
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts

Summary

Making Historyfeatures milestones in the discovery, recording, interpretation, and communication of Britain’s past. It includes antiquities of international importance, detailed records of lost buildings and objects, paintings of ancient sites and landscapes by Turner Blake and other great artists commissioned by the Society and its Fellows, royal portraits from Henry VI to Mary Tudor, and rare historical manuscripts.

Table of Contents

Making History	p. 11
The Discovery of Britain	p. 15
Mists of Time	p. 17
Earliest Antiquaries	p. 37
'To encourage the ingenious and curious'	p. 51
Founders and Fellows	p. 53
Collecting for Britain	p. 69
Antiquaries in Action, 1707-1850	p. 93
Opening the Tomb	p. 95
Lost and Found	p. 109
The Art of Recording	p. 123
Bringing Truth to Light	p. 143
Antiquaries and the Arts	p. 163
Antiquaries and the Arts	p. 165
From Antiquaries to Archaeologists, 1850-2007	p. 183
The Birth of Modern Archaeology	p. 185
Rescuing the Past	p. 201
Communicating the Past: From the Earth to the Airwaves	p. 215
Face to Face with the Past	p. 221
Stonehenge	p. 225
Stonehenge	p. 227
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