ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Major counties' collections

Counties from which largest collections come in England, by decade

 

County

1880s

1890s

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

All Bedfordshire

41

4

466

1,191

27

16

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

All Buckinghamshire

0

2

5

252

98

30

758

5

1

3

6

22

1

All Essex

9

3

11

21

103

9

796

43

2

0

10

0

2

All Hampshire and Isle of Wight

50

4

11

547

83

113

14

11

370

0

0

0

1

All Kent

688

60

40

359

277

75

60

26

309

0

5

0

0

All London [Greater]

1,066

68

182

229

139

181

701

174

232

39

173

153

48

All Oxfordshire

163

572

1,570

651

1,447

358

576

125

91

8

124

36

121

All Somerset

36

26

75

38

139

0

130

20

385

6

17

3

14

All Suffolk

245

192

125

453

1,161

486

83

26

234

0

4

0

14

All Surrey

141

25

33

23

997

35

217

0

0

0

0

0

0

All Sussex

2,931

16

32

150

400

321

28

4

7

0

22

0

4

All Wiltshire

45

4

192

60

137

2

71

41

3

43

4

1,381

0

All Yorkshire

243

43

4

31

286

16

26

51

33

3

3

9

43

Total English collections

6,745

1,363

3,058

4,538

5,864

3,896

4,667

2,024

2,926

291

815

2,082

1,521

 

 

Total number of objects from each county:

 

County

Total number of objects

Bedfordshire

1,749

Buckinghamshire

1,183

Essex

1,007

Hampshire and Isle of Wight

1,204

Kent

1,899

London [Greater]

3,385

Oxfordshire

5,841

Somerset

879

Suffolk

3,114

Surrey

1,471

All Sussex

4,039

Wiltshire

1,983

All Yorkshire

791

Total English collections