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Tag: British Museum

Tales from Thomas Wilson: Hans Sloane, Ralph Thoresby and the British Museum

by Antony Ramm, Local and Family History, Central Library A new book explores the life and work of Hans Sloane, the 17th and 18th-century Antiquarian, collector and Gentleman scholar. Sloane’s collections were so extensive and unique that they formed the basis of the British Museum on his death in 1753. While Leeds had to wait…

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