Heritage & Conservation
Treasures in Trusted Hands Cover Treasures in Trusted Hands Cover
Format: 
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088904400
Pub Date: 15 May 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: CLUES
Illustrations: 0
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088904394
Pub Date: 15 May 2017
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: CLUES
Illustrations: 0
Description:
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries and contestable acquisitions by private persons and other categories. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has not been undone.
Castles and the Anglo-Norman World Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781785700224
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Castles and the Anglo-Norman World draws together a series of 20 papers by 26 French and English specialists in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. It includes summaries of current knowledge and new research into important Norman castles in England and Normandy, drawing on information from recent excavations. Sections consider the evolution of Anglo-Norman castles, the architecture and archaeology of Norman monuments, Romanesque architecture and artefacts, the Bayeux Tapestry and the presentation of historic sites to the public.
Fernweh Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 186
ISBN: 9789088903502
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
‘Fernweh’ is a collection of essays on archaeological heritage management issues dedicated to Professor dr. Willem J.H.
Down By The River Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781785701689
Pub Date: 22 Jan 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
East Anglia has long been known for its internationally significant cultural and environmental Palaeolithic archaeology, often overshadowing the potential of its Holocene resource. This volume details the results of 8 years of palaeoenvironmental, archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations focused on the post-glacial history and evolution of the Suffolk river valleys, funded by Historic England and a number of commercial developers. The volume illustrates the largely untapped research potential of the region and provides information concerning the timing, pattern and process of alluvial development, landscape change, and human activity.
RRP: £25.00
Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781909686731
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Imprint: Windgather Press
Description:
This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London map-makers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several espisodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book followed on from a large number of previous maps of the county but was greatly superior to them in terms of quality and detail.
RRP: £35.00
For Future Generations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781785701559
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology of the Mary Rose
Illustrations: b/w pls, line-drawings and figs throughout
Description:
The Mary Rose, one of the first great British warships and Henry VIII's flagship, sank in 1545, taking all her contents and most of her crew to the bottom of the sea. The conservation of the hull of the Mary Rose, and more than 26,000 objects recovered during her excavation, has been a massive undertaking. The complex process of conservation was begun even before the hull was raised from the seabed in 1982, and continues today.
Door de lens van de landschapsbiografie Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9789088903137
Pub Date: 25 Jun 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This Dutch-language book contains a collection of the best essays written in the context of a Masters course entitled "The Biography of the Landscape", taught at the VU University (Amsterdam). The essays deal with the long and complex histories of landscapes from a personal, social, cultural and geographical perspective.The essays focus on the different manners in which monuments and landscapes transformed over time, involving processes of forgetting and remembering both on a conscious and unconscious level.
Conservation 14: Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 410
ISBN: 9788857529233
Pub Date: 31 May 2015
Imprint: Mimesis International
Description:
This historico-technical journal was founded in 2001. Published yearly, in the course of the years the journal has entered the international stage with the name “Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage”, and it is now published in English and in Italian, both in electronic format and on print. It is featured on many websites and international databases, it has been granted the opportunity to apply the Creative Commons (CC) licence and the “seal” of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition), and it has been officially requested by EBSCO Publishing and H.
Water & Heritage Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 434
ISBN: 9789088902789
Pub Date: 23 Apr 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 29bw/133fc
Description:
Water is vital for life, and its availability has been a concern for mankind throughout the ages. Its presence has always been ascertained in a variety of ways and the development of human society everywhere is connected with various forms of water management. Man also needed to manage water to find protection from its dangers and the need for that is increasing.
RRP: £75.00
Trophies, Relics and Curios? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088902710
Pub Date: 12 Mar 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries, radically transforming the lives of people in large parts of the globe, including in Europe itself.By exploring a range of artefacts, photographs and archival documents that have survived, or emerged from, these transformations, this volume sheds an oblique light on the histories of British Missionaries in Africa and the Pacific, and the ways in which their work is remembered in different parts of the world today.Short contributions describing the histories of particular items, accompanied by rich visual imagery, showcase the extraordinary l items that were caught up in histories of conversion, and are still controversial for many today.
A Field Guide of the Birds of Wesleyan Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 48
ISBN: 9780819575630
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2014
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 19 colour plates
Description:
The sixteen birds detailed in this charming field guide will be well known to birders in Connecticut, but the attention to detail and personality quirks in each bird’s description make this book special for any reader. “Having dropped out of high school, Blue Jays are truants experiencing cheap thrills.” Written after leading a student forum on field ornithology, Oliver James developed the book to introduce non-birders to a wonderful new way to experience the world - through encounters with the birds that are most likely to be found on the campus of this liberal arts college.
Regarding the Dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9780861591978
Pub Date: 26 May 2014
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 80 illustrations
Description:
The British Museum holds approximately 6,000 human remains, the majority of which were recovered in the past century. Regarding the Dead addresses the British Museum’s approach to the ethical issues surrounding the inclusion of human remains in the Museum’s collection and presents solutions to the dilemmas relating to their curation, storage, access management and display. The holding of human remains in museums has long been a matter of academic and public discourse.
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9788857516271
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2013
Imprint: Mimesis International
Description:
The historico-technical journal was founded in 2001. Published yearly, in the course of the years the journal has entered the international stage with the name “Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage”, and it is now published in English and in Italian, both in electronic format and on print. It is featured on many websites and international databases, it has been granted the opportunity to apply the Creative Commons (CC) licence and the “seal” of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition), and it has been officially requested by EBSCO Publishing and H.
Becoming European Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842174500
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: col & b/w illus
Description:
It can be argued that elements of European heritage can be identified not only as a national strategy of the present but also as a process in prehistory - the cultural and political transformations of the third millennium BC in European prehistory sparking off this process. These transformations initiated the processes and mechanisms that led up to the complex political, social and cultural institutions of the first half of the second millennium BC. From this time on, an authentic historical continuum leading towards present-day society can be identified.
Heritage Transformed Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842174579
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
How does "heritage" become objectified within public institutions and representative of a national past? This book proposes a model for this process and contains five case studies that explore variety in the transformation of heritage. The model proposes that heritage is transformed from concept to object and the agency of change is "management".
RRP: £40.00
Sharing Knowledge and Cultural Heritage Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9789088900662
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2011
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK&CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples.This volume is the result of an "expert meeting" held in November 2007 at the National Museum of Ethnology (NME) in Leiden, the Netherlands.