PREHISTORIC NARRATIVES
IN COUNTY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY MUSEUMS
IN MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND .

Yun Shun Susie Chung

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would also like to acknowledge the following societies, museums, and individuals for their kind cooperation:

Leicester Museums Service

Mrs. Mary Hider, Registrar
Mrs. Samantha Glasswell, Deputy Registrar

Leicestershire Record Office

Mrs. Janette Pearson, Archives Assistant

Museum of Sussex Archaeology

Ms. Emma Young, Curator

Norwich Castle Museum

Mr. Bill Milligan, Assistant Keeper

Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society

Mr. R. Bellinger, Honorary General Secretary
Miss Barbara Green, Honorary Librarian

Norfolk Record Office
Sussex Past/Sussex Archaeological Society

Mr. John Manley, Chief Executive

Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Somersetshire County Council Library Service

Mr. David Bromwich, Somerset Studies Librarian

Somersetshire Record Office
Somerset County Museums Service

Mr. Steve Minnitt, Assistant County Museums Officer

Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

Mr. P.M. Coston, Secretary

Wiltshire Heritage Museum & Library

Mrs. Pamela Colman, former Librarian
Mrs. Lorna Haycock, Librarian (who happens to be an alumna of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge)
Dr. Paul Robinson, Curator

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NOTES

1. This was called "Natural Theology" (Morrell & Thackray 1981: 226-29).
2. See M. Rudwick (1992; 1997) and S. Moser (1998) on the production of knowledge through visual aids.
3. For social history see G. Best (1979).
4. See P. Levine (1986).
5. The British Association for the Advancement of Science was formed after a German model which was established since 1822. It was through the Yorkshire Philosophical Society that cooperation for the forming of the BAAS was conceived in 1831.
6. In his paper on 'Craniology and the Adoption of the Three-Age System in Britain', Michael Morse showed the influence of this system in the British Isles (1999). He stressed that Thomsen's publication did not directly make an impact on the chronological arrangement of prehistoric archaeological objects in the museums. Morse argued that the Three-Age System spread in Britain through the science of ethnology. In this section, I wish to explore deeper into how the System was converted into prehistoric narratives in the county archaeological society museums in England.
7. Also see T. Richards on dominance and control by England through intellectual methods (1991:40).