ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Acquisition events that formed the Oxfordshire collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Alison Petch,
Researcher 'The Other Within' project

 

Rather than looking at those donors who gave most objects, it can be constructive to look at people who had most numbers of contacts with the museum. This is the position with regard to objects from Oxfordshire donated between 1884 and July 2008. [1]

Total number of times Oxfordshire objects were donated to the Museum = 434 instances

Number of instances per decade:

1880s	10
1890s	48
1900s	75
1910s	52
1920s	24
1930s	41
1940s	71
1950s	27
1960s	10
1970s	6
1980s	9
1990s	13
2000-2008	47

Note that the number of instances between 2000-2008 is inflated by items which have been accessioned during that period but 'found unentered' in the museum and actually donated in an earlier decade.

Gendered instances by decade

Donors are usually either male or female or institutional or of unknown gender. This table shows the division, note that in some instances two or more donors of different sex gave in a single instance, the figures therefore do not exactly tally with the figures given in the first table.

	Male	Female	Institution	Unknown
1880s	8	1	1	0
1890s	44	0	4	0
1900s	73	2	1	0
1910s	50	2	0	0
1920s	19	4	2	0
1930s	31	7	3	0
1940s	46	22	5	0
1950s	17	5	5	0
1960s	5	4	1	0
1970s	4	2	0	0
1980s	6	3	0	0
1990s	5	4	2	2
2000-2008	25	13	2	8

1880s

	Number of instances
1884	1
1885	1
1886	2
1887	2
1888	3
1889	1

 

1890s

	Number of instances
1890	1
1891	7
1892	3
1893	3
1894	3
1895	7
1896	4
1897	9
1898	9
1899	2

 

1900s

	Number of instances
1900	4
1901	6
1902	6
1903	7
1904	7
1905	14
1906	12
1907	7
1908	7
1909	5

 

1910s

	Number of instances
1910	5
1911	11
1912	7
1913	2
1914	5
1915	5
1916	4
1917	4
1918	8
1919	1

 

1920s

	Number of instances
1920	2
1921	5
1922	1
1923	5
1924	1
1925	2
1926	1
1927	3
1928	3
1929	1

 

1930s

	Number of instances
1930	2
1931	3
1932	6
1933	8
1934	6
1935	4
1936	1
1937	0
1938	4
1939	7

 

1940s

	Number of instances
1940	5
1941	8
1942	10
1943	11
1944	14
1945	8
1946	5
1947	3
1948	4
1949	3

 

1950s

	Number of instances
1950	3
1951	3
1952	3
1953	11
1954	3
1955	1
1956	1
1957	0
1958	2
1959	0

 

1960s

	Number of instances
1960	0
1961	1
1962	0
1963	0
1964	1
1965	0
1966	3
1967	2
1968	2
1969	1

 

1970s

	Number of instances
1970	2
1971	1
1972	2
1973	0
1974	0
1975	0
1976	1
1977	0
1978	0
1979	0

 

1980s

	Number of instances
1980	1
1981	0
1982	0
1983	0
1984	1
1985	2
1986	3
1987	1
1988	0
1989	1

 

1990s

	Number of instances
1990	0
1991	1
1992	1
1993	3
1994	2
1995	1
1996	1
1997	1
1998	1
1999	2

 

2000-2008

	Number of instances
2000	1
2001	10
2002	5
2003	3
2004	6
2005	7
2006	4
2007	6
2008	5

 

Ranking of donors of Oxfordshire objects by instances of donation

Donors who gave only once to the Oxfordshire collections

 

[1] Note that these statistics were prepared using data accurate at 16 July 2008, this is later information than that used to prepare other Oxfordshire (and England) statistics on this site).