- David M. Wilson
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Sir David Mackenzie Wilson, Kt (born 30 October 1931) is a British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator, specialising in Anglo-Saxon art and the Viking Age. He lives on the Isle of Man.
Wilson was the director of the British Museum from 1977 to 1992, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1]
Works
- 1964. Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork 700 - 1100, in the British Museum. British Museum Press.
- 1984 Anglo-Saxon: Art From The Seventh Century To The Norman Conquest, Thames and Hudson (US edn. Overlook Press).
- Anglo-Saxon Paganism. Routledge.
References
Directors and Principal Librarians of the British Museum Gowin Knight (1756) · Matthew Maty (1772) · Charles Morton (1776) · Joseph Planta (1799) · Henry Ellis (1827) · Anthony Panizzi (1856) · John Winter Jones (1866) · Edward Augustus Bond (1873) · Edward Maunde Thompson (1888) · Frederic G. Kenyon (1909) · George Francis Hill (1931) · John Forsdyke (1936) · Thomas Downing Kendrick (1950) · Frank Francis (1959) · John Wolfenden (1969) · John Pope-Hennessy (1974) · David M. Wilson (1977) · Robert Anderson (1992) · Neil MacGregor (2002)
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