| §6. Archæological Antiquaries. XV. Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. ... (2447 words) |
 | Gough’s Anecdotes of British Topography was continued in the ten volumes of John Nichols’s Bibliotheca Topographica (1780–1800), whose most important work was The History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Leicester, published from 1795 to 1815. |
| George Thomas Clark, a founder of the Archaeological association (now the Royal Archaeological institute), propounded, in his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England (1884), the theory that the castle of Norman times was identical with the burh of the Old English Chronicle; but this theory has been, practically, overthrown by later authorities. |
| The Kilkenny Archaeological society, founded in 1849, became, in 1869, the “Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland,” and, in 1890, the “Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.” |
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