Mapping Manning: The Man who Collected Oxfordshire

Alison Roberts - Oxford University Museums Partnership, Innovation Fund

Principal Investigator / Director: Alison Roberts

Oxford participants: Jonathan Moffett; Alison Roberts

Other Participants: Michael Athanson; Simon Collcutt; Michael Heaney; Alison Petch

Project Webpage: http://percymanning.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/

Start Date: 01/08/2015

End Date: 30/06/2017

Funder: Oxford University Museums Partnership, Innovation Fund

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): Bodleian Library; Ashmolean Museum; Pitt Rivers Museum

 

 

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Project Description:

Mapping Manning brings together two sets of resources for the local history of Oxford and Oxfordshire:

 

- the detailed large-scale maps created by Percy Manning (1870-1917), on which he marked archaeological sites and finds – these continued in active use and were updated by the Ashmolean Museum after his death, until the late 1970s;

- the indexes and databases describing Percy Manning's collections in the Ashmolean Museum, Bodleian Libraries and Pitt Rivers Museum.