Posted 11 Months, 3 Weeks ago ppreddy Senior Boarder Posts: 42   Can anyone recommend books on the history of or about Society run Museums in Britain ? Many thanks The administrator has disabled public write access. Posted 11 Months, 3 Weeks ago AnGeL7007 Senior Boarder Posts: 41   There's an excellent article on the museums of the Yorkshire Philosophical Societies by Peter Brears ('Temples of the muses: the Yorkshire philosophical museums 1820-50' in Museums Journal vol. 84 no. 1, pp. 3-19 (1984). The administrator has disabled public write access.