Resultado de búsqueda
Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery.
Michael Pitt-Rivers. Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford.
Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery.
27 de may. de 2024 · Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers was a British landowner who in the 1950’s was put on trial for buggery at a time when being homosexual was still illegal. The case drew attention to changing community attitudes to homosexuality and led to the publication of the Wolfenden Report that recommended decriminalisation.
History of the Museum. The Museum was founded in 1884, when General Pitt-Rivers, an influential figure in the development of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology, gave his collection to the University of Oxford.
He was a man with a mission in life: to unveil the laws of cultural evolution. He saw the facts of human remains as a continuous process of growth and decay, and just as Darwin applied these two component elements to his theory of continuity in nature, Pitt-Rivers applied them to the material arts.
Rushmore is steeped in local history, being once the home of General Pitt-Rivers more famously known for his collection of artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. It is rich in biodiversity, home to two Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI’s) and being set in the heart of the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ...
