Oxbow Books is the distributor for British Museum Press scholarly titles, including the British Museum Research Publications (formerly called the Occasional Papers). The British Museum publishes a wide range of academic titles which are the result of research and scholarly study undertaken by the staff of the British Museum and other leading academics. These volumes range from interim field reports and collected conference papers to definitive reference catalogues that provide essential material for academic study. The Research Publications, published by the Secretariat of the British Museum, present current findings on specific aspects of the collections, publication of recent acquisitions and up-to-date reports of research projects and excavations undertaken by the departments of the British Museum.
Printmaking was a vitally important activity in the long artistic career of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). His long-standing, if at times episodic, engagement with printmaking, stretched...
by Hew Locke OBE RA, Isabel Seligman and Indra Khanna
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780714123509
Publisher: British Museum
Pub Date: 2024-11-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
192 Pages
Hew Locke is interested in dissecting the messy and complex ways in which museums are implicated in histories of empire. ‘This project has enabled me to engage with the museum’s collections in a...
First complete publication of one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe at Snettisham, Norfolk. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Iron Age culture.
Accompanying a major exhibition at the British Museum in May 2024, this booklet features spectacular loans from the Vatican Library and the Louvre, placing one of the world’s finest collections of...
This volume was prompted by the recent discovery in Britain of two large coin hoards dating from the first decade of the fourth century AD – Wold Newton and Rauceby. Coins of this early Tetrarchic...
This volume provides an authoritative and systematic account of the coins minted for Roman Egypt between AD 138 and 192. It is the first of four volumes, which will cover the provincial coinage of this...
The Instruments and Accoutrements of Ancient Medicine
by Jackson Ralph
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592326
Publisher: British Museum
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
200 Pages
Most accounts of the history of Greek and Roman medicine are based on ancient medical texts. As a study of the subject through its material remains, this book will be a unique contribution to the understanding of ancient medical implements and surgical instruments, of surgery, and of the history of medicine.
four post-war German and Austrian artists from the Duerckheim Collection
by Michael Semff and John-Paul Stonard
Price: $37.50
ISBN: 9780714126975
Publisher: British Museum
Pub Date: 2023-12-18
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
112 Pages
An extraordinary and stunning selection of unique and compelling artworks by four artists from post-war Germany and Austria, complete with a brief overview of each artist's work and career, with an...
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Oxbow Books is the distributor for British Museum Press scholarly titles, including the British Museum Research Publications (formerly called the Occasional Papers). The British Museum publishes a wide range of academic titles which are the result of research and scholarly study undertaken by the staff of the British Museum and other leading academics. These volumes range from interim field reports and collected conference papers to definitive reference catalogues that provide essential material for academic study. The Research Publications, published by the Secretariat of the British Museum, present current findings on specific aspects of the collections, publication of recent acquisitions and up-to-date reports of research projects and excavations undertaken by the departments of the British Museum. 
