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Friday, 12 April 2013

Disney and Collecting Histories


Readers of LM are very welcome to attend this lecture. I will be looking at the background to Dr John Disney and will explore how he became interested in archaeology. The lecture will develop my memoir on Disney for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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