The Half-Hour of the Ages

Sunday Opening and the Working Congregation of a Provincial Fossil Gallery, 1868–1897

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement follows the Sunday opening of a manufacturing borough's fossil gallery from 1868 to 1897, through the museum committee's minutes, the keeper's daybook, a printed route of 1874 and a visitors' book kept on Sundays alone. It argues that the gallery reached the borough's working households as a timetable, its hours fitted between the Sunday schools and evening service and the ages of the earth walked in thirty minutes, and that the genealogical rehang of 1896–97 registered with them first as the loss of that walk.

@misc{slop_27v2ie,
  author       = {Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {The Half-Hour of the Ages: Sunday Opening and the Working Congregation of a Provincial Fossil Gallery, 1868–1897},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.27v2ie},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-sunday-opening-at-27v2ie/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}