ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

How much information do we have about individuals who contributed to the Pitt Rivers Museum's English collections

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How much information do we have about individuals who contributed to the Pitt Rivers Museum's English collections

There is a total of 1,455 individuals who have contributed to the English collections in the Pitt Rivers Museum up to 2007.

Many web and hard copy resources have been used to find information about these individuals:

575 of these individuals have entries on the PRM internal biographies database [39.5%]

133 are mentioned in the DNB [9.1%][so these ones have full biographies]

130 are mentioned in Who was Who [8.9%]

125 are mentioned in Wikipedia [8.5%]

[Note: these categories are not mutually exclusive]

Of these 141 have known portraits.