British secondary schools amassed collections of antiquities from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. These ordinarily contained classical objects, sometimes alongside Egyptian antiquities, and accompanied collections of natural history, geology and ethnography. This paper uses the collection formed by Bedford Modern School, now housed at the Higgins Museum, Bedford, to study the phenomenon of school classical collections. The analysis presented here places school collections within a wider history of ‘object lessons’, but suggests that these collections were more than merely teaching aids. School museums could act as signifiers of power and prestige, connection to alumni and wider local communities, and to a heritage of learning and scholarship embodied by classical antiquities. Furthermore, these collections illustrate the personalities and interests of individual collectors – usually the schoolmasters who were instrumental in their formation.

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用物体教授经典？英国学校对古典文物的收购，1860-1950

英国中学从 19 世纪中叶开始收集古物。这些通常包含古典物品，有时与埃及文物一起，并伴随着自然历史、地质学和民族志的收藏。本文利用贝德福德现代学校（现收藏于贝德福德希金斯博物馆）所形成的藏品来研究学校古典藏品的现象。这里提出的分析将学校藏品置于更广泛的“实物课程”历史中，但表明这些藏品不仅仅是教具。学校博物馆可以作为权力和声望的象征，与校友和更广泛的当地社区的联系，以及古典文物所体现的学习和学术遗产。此外，