1. See James Thompson, The History of Leicester from the Time of the Romans to the End of the Seventeenth Century (Leicester: Crossley, 1849); ‘Leicester Museum Accession Book’, 1880–96. Manuscript. Leicester Museum.
2. See Bristol Museum, Report of the Museum Committee 1902–3 (Bristol: Bristol Council, 1903); ‘Leicester Museum Accession Book’, 1892, 1896; ‘Warrington Museum Receiving Book’, 1880–1914 (1904). Manuscript. Warrington Museum.
3. See Kate Hill, Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850–1914 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 76, 83;
4. Gaynor Kavanagh, History Curatorship (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990).
5. See Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones, ‘Fetishizing the Glove in Renaissance Europe’, Critical Inquiry, 28 (2001), 116.