Talk:Rupert Bruce-Mitford

Lead
I shortened the overlong lead. All those positions and years of service to associations should probably also be removed. Yoninah (talk) 21:46, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Publications
Many of Bruce-Mitford's publications listed in the article are sourced from the 1989 catalogue of his library. The first 156 entries in the catalogue (out of 6,008) are works by or about Bruce-Mitford. In addition, the copy of the catalogue held by Columbia University's Avery Library (catalogue entry) is Bruce-Mitford's personal copy, and contains many hand-written edits. These include extending the list of 156 to 167, and adding another three works on a blank page at the front, making for 170 total publications.

All this is to say that over the last six(!) years I've tried to track down the listed publications—many of which, like the catalogue itself, are painfully obscure. Only seven remain to track down, although (as seen below) three of these are likely one-offs, duplicative, or under a different name; the true number remaining is thus likely more like three or four.

Still working on tracking down:


 * Bruce-Mitford (Dr. Rupert L. S.). Swedish gold exhibition. Sutton Hoo and Sweden. A leaflet inserted in Golden Age and Viking Art in Sweden - a catalogue of an exhibition at the British Museum. NP. 1965. Modern boards.
 * #124 in the catalogue. Plenty of copies of the exhibition catalogue are in libraries, but the one I've looked at didn't have a leaflet in it. Notice about the exhibition found here.


 * Review of The Viking Ships by A. W. Brøgger and Haakon Shetelig Dreyers Forlag, Oslo, 1953 pp. 248 (probably in Ant. J., XXXIV, 1954).
 * Handwritten on the blank page. Bruce-Mitford had three reviews in that issue of The Antiquaries Journal, from pages 246–247, but not on page 248, and not of The Viking Ships. Possible there's a Bruce-Mitford review of the book somewhere else.


 * (Weights and Scales from Barton on Humber) in T. Sheppard (Director of the Hull Municipal Museum), Hull Museum Publication No. 208, The Museum, Hull, 1940, pp. 40–42.
 * Handwritten on the blank page. This looks to be a reprint of the 1939–40 articles in The Naturalist.

Either one-offs or likely already in the article:


 * Bruce-Mitford (Dr. Rupert L. S.). Prospectus of a lecture by Dr. R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford at Dalhousie University - The Royal Treasure of Sutton Hoo. Monday, September 29th, 1980. NP, Dalhousie University. 1980. Buckram folder.
 * #59 in the catalogue. Presumably unpublished notes.


 * Bruce-Mitford (Dr. Rupert L. S.). The Sutton Hoo ship-burial. NP. 1972. Modern boards. Extract.
 * #101 in the catalogue. Likely the second edition of the handbook, but the description is too vague to confirm.


 * [Recollections of Sutton Hoo, in the early post-war Years] in Sutton Hoo Trusts? Bulletin, 1989 or 1990
 * Handwritten #167 in the catalogue. Likely "Early Thoughts on Sutton Hoo" in Saxon (1989). There was also a Bulletin of the Sutton Hoo Research Committee published from 1983 to 1993 by the the Sutton Hoo Research Trust, but they are online (link), and do not appear to have an article by Bruce-Mitford.

--Usernameunique (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2023 (UTC)


 * That is a very impressive piece of work. I don't have any of those so can't be of any use on that from unfortunately! Would it be worth opening the publications section with a note that there's a catalogue? Richard Nevell (talk) 10:57, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Good idea, ; added . I'm also still trying to get copies of "Gold and silver Cloisonne buckle" and "Weights and Scales". The other two will be more difficult. --Usernameunique (talk) 17:48, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Got the first of those two, which is, indeed, reprinted in Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. --Usernameunique (talk) 19:14, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Hugh Willmott (archaeologist)
A couple years ago, a line was stating that "Bruce-Mitford's cousin, once removed, is the medieval archaeologist Dr Hugh Willmott." It wasn't actually mentioned in, but the editor who added it, , seems as if they have personal knowledge, so I didn't remove it at the time. (The photo of Willmott in his article is credited to Jephthah20, and an uncropped version appears on Willmott's website.)

Now that I'm cleaning this article up with an eye to GA, I'm removing the line. If appropriate sources can be found, however, it can be added back. This post by Willmott on a genealogy website gives some more details. (See also the reply, which mentions Bruce-Mitford.) Notably, there appear to be several built-out trees on Ancestry.com which establish the connection; from what I can tell, Bruce-Mitford's father, Charles Eustace Beer (surname later changed to Bruce-Mitford), was the brother of Willmott's great-grandfather, Herbert Leonard Beer (surname apparently later changed to Midford). Biddle 2015 discusses Charles and Herbert Beer in some detail, but not the latter's descendants. --Usernameunique (talk) 00:52, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Adding the below source, which traces Herbert Leonard Midford to William Leonard Midford (Willmott's grandfather). --Usernameunique (talk) 03:37, 20 September 2023 (UTC)