Hugh Edgar is an English

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who worked on several archival projects in the United Kingdom and as a consultant around the world. He completed the design for the National Museum of Antiquities for Scotland. He was the

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representative to the

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about BS 5454:2000 "Recommendations for storage and exhibition of archival documents." He was also commissioned by the royal family of

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. Edgar achieved renown as one of the participants in the television series ''

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'', in which he portrayed the

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.Taddeo, Julie Anne & Dvorak, Ken. "The PBS Historical House Series: Where Historical Reality Succumbs to Reel Reality" ''Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies'' - Volume 37.1 (2007), pp. 18-2
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