HIST 445-Research, Prep, Eat, Sleep, Repeat

Preparation for my presentation next week is going well and my research is clearly going in one direction (which is always good), but the mountain of books on my desk seems insurmountable.

Since working with modern primary sources is something very new to me I have been getting rather frustrated with them.  I have a plethora of secondary sources on the topic, thankfully.  I now have a proper research question which my paper aims to answer: What aspects of British 18^th & 19^th century politics & culture effected the patterns of growth of acquisitions of antiquities at the British Museum during this time?

The Enlightenment Room, The British Museum