Secular relics : narrative objects and material biography in the museums of Darwin, Elgar & Holmes
This thesis investigates objects considered to be significant through their association with historically noteworthy persons and how these objects are displayed. Such objects and their related cultural practices are regularly compared to relics. However, this has not been tested in the existing lite...
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University of the West of England, Bristol
2017
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704119 |