Arthur MacGregor
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Arthur MacGregor is a British academic and author, "who largely invented the idea of the history of museums".[1]
MacGregor has spent most of his career at the Ashmolean Museum, before his appointment as director of the Society of Antiquaries.[2]
He has been president of the Society for the History of Natural History since 2015, when he succeeded Hugh Torrens.[3]
MacGregor is founder of the Journal of the History of Collections which he edited from 1989-2023.[4]
Selected works
- 2024. St Helena : An Island Biography. BOYDELL PRESS.
- 2023. The India Museum Revisited. UCL Press.
- 2018. Naturalists in the Field: Collecting Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century. (editor) 2018. Leiden: Brill.
- 2018. Company Curiosities : Nature Culture and the East India Company 1600-1874. 2018. London: Reaktion Books.
- 2015. The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum. New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press.
- 2012. Animal Encounters : Human and Animal Interaction in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War One. London: Reaktion Books.
- 2007. Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. New Haven Conn: Yale University Press.
- 2000. The Ashmolean Museum Oxford. Munich: Prestel.
- 1994. Sir Hans Sloane: Collector Scientist Antiquary Founding Father of the British Museum. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press in association with Alistair McAlpine.
- 1985. (with Oliver Impey). The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe. 1985. Oxford: Clarendon.
References
- ^ "Curiosity And Enlightenment, by Arthur MacGregor". independent.co.uk. 18 March 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ^ "A message from SHNH President, Professor Arthur MacGregor - Society for the History of Natural History". shnh.org.uk. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ^ Hildegard Wiegel and Michael J Vickers. 2013. Excalibur : Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur Macgregor. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- ^ "Editorial changes at the Journal of the History of Collections", Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 35, Issue 3, November 2023, Pages 411–412