Marjorie Caygill
Marjorie Lancaster Caygill OBE FSA is a British historian, specialising in the history of the British Museum.
Career
In the early 1970s, Caygill was a Research Assistant at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. She joined the British Museum in 1973 as a Research Assistant in the Secretariat and became Assistant to the Director in 1978. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1984, and received the OBE in the 1993 New Year Honours. She retired in 2004, and in 2008 became a Fellow of the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum.Selected publications
Books
Treasures of the British Museum ISBN 978-0714121642Curious things of every kind : the British Museum book of poetry ISBN 978-0714150710 Flowers ISBN 978-0714150444Winter: A Companion ISBN 978-0714150338The British Museum. 250 Years ISBN 978-0714127866 Peoples of the Past. British Museum Diary 2003 ISBN 978-0714127736The Story of the British Museum ISBN 978-0714127729The British Museum Reading Room ISBN 978-0861599851Building the British Museum ISBN 978-0714121642 The British Museum A-Z Companion ISBN 978-0714121437A.W. Franks: Nineteenth-century Collecting and the British Museum ISBN 978-0714117638 A Survey of Visitors to the British Museum ISBN 978-0861591015 A Survey of Visitors to the British Museum ISBN 978-0861590643 Treasures of the British Museum ISBN 978-0714120331Economic Aspects of the Viking Age ISBN 978-0861590308 Community in the making: aspects of Britain's role in the development of professional education in the commonwealth ISBN 978-0902499164Articles and chapters in books
- "Sloane's catalogue and the arrangement of his collections" in Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor and Michael Hunter, From Books to Bezoars
- "Sir Hans Sloane and his museum", BM Magazine: the journal of the British Museum Society, 2003.