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1 British Museum, Museum strategy to 2012, 2008, http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Strategy%20to%202012%20web%20version.pdf (consulted 7 July 2011), p. 5.
2 BBC, ‘The BBC and British Museum announce A history of the world – a unique and unprecedented partnership focusing on world history for 2010’, 11 November 2009, http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/11_november/25/history.shtml (consulted July 7 2011).
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4 Ibid., p. 684.
5 British Museum, ‘A history of the world in 100 objects’, British Museum Review 2009/10, 2010, http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/annualreview0910.pdf (consulted 7 July 2011), p. 8.
6 British Museum, ‘British Museum celebrates success of public service partnership and looks to the future’, press release, 2010, http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/news_and_press_releases/press_releases/2010/annual_review.aspx (consulted 7 July 2011).
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8 British Museum, ‘British Museum celebrates’.
9 James Vernon, ‘The state they are in: history and public education in England’, Perspectives on History: the Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, 49, 3, 2011, p. 21.
10 Ibid.
11 MacGregor, A history of the world, p. xiv.
12 Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past, ‘Report on IPUP’s “multi-platforming” conference: why discuss multi-platforming?’, 2010, http://www.york.ac.uk/ipup/projects/packaging/history/events/multiplatforming-report.pdf (consulted 7 July 2011).
13 British Museum, Museum strategy, p. 5.