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Queen Victoria's skull: George Combe and the mid-Victorian mind

Queen Victoria's Skull was the result of a near decade worth of planning and research. The principal archival source was the Combe Papers, which included 11 quarto volumes of letters, of 700-800 pages, and 30 private journals, including daily diary entries for the last seventeen years of Combe's life, reports, notebooks, drafts of letters and other miscellaneous material. The sheer volume of research involved was made possible by grants from the Wellcome Trust (2003) and the AHRB (2006). The result, according to one reviewer, is a 'superior' account of value to all scholars of 'Victorian intellectual culture'.