Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1920.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
January | No day | Blackwood visits Germany, including the Völkerkunde Museum, Berlin on January 11, where she meets Professor von Luschan | PRM ms collections, Blackwood papers box 21 | |
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Unspecified | Beatrice Blackwood appointed Departmental Demonstrator in Dept of Human Anatomy | DNB entry | ||
Unspecified | Blackwood takes her B.A. and her M.A. on the same day, in 1920, the first year that women were allowed to graduate from Oxford | Penniman 1976a: 321 | ||
Unspecified | Wilfred Susan Blackman continues to volunteer at Museum working on the card catalogues | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1920 |
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Unspecified | Francis Howe Seymour Knowles resumes volunteering at Museum | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Magic / charms, Neolithic series, Rosaries | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1920 | ||
Unspecified | George Carline continues as Assistant Curator | Annual Report 1920 | ||
Unspecified | Dept of Social Anthropology are given notice to quit Barnett House | Peter Rivière | ||
Unspecified | Women are admitted to full membership of the University of Oxford | here |
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