Heritage & Conservation
All aspects of the definition and preservation of cultural heritage and human interaction with the past, from conservation techniques to museum studies, contested pasts, and concepts of cultural property
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The Technological Study of Books and Manuscripts as Artefacts [Paperback]
A. M. Pollard (Author); Sarah Neate (Author); David Howell (Author); Richard Ovenden (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9781407307671
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The introduction to this collection of papers is entitled "the book as material object", which effectively outlines its contents. The main themes encompass analysis techniques for the various material components of manuscripts, dating and conse... .... Learn More -
Cultural Heritage, Ethics and the Military [Hardback]
Peter Stone (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9781843835387
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The world reacted with horror to the images of the looting of the National Museum in Iraq in 2003 - closely followed by other museums and then, largely unchecked, or archaeological sites across the country. This outcome had been predicted by ma... .... Learn More -
France in Ruins - Buildings in Decay [Paperback]
Simon O'corra (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781906137236
Published by : Golden House Publications
A collection of evocative black-and-white pictures of ruined buildings in France. These ruins include churches, town houses, industrial buildings, former civic structures and castles. The text explores their history, the factors behind their ru... .... Learn More -
Maintenance of Historic Buildings: A Practical Handbook [Hardback]
Jurgen Klemisch (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781873394922
Published by : Donhead Publishing
Designed for building managers and their conservation advisors, this handbook provides a model for planning a maintenance programme for historic buildings. It outlines the various stages of maintenance procedures, including advice on timing and... .... Learn More -
Managing the Historic Environment on West Cornwall's Rough Ground [Paperback]
Graeme Kirkham (Author)
£29.00ISBN: 9781903798744
Published by : Cornwall County Council
West Cornwalls rough ground is rich in archaeology, but the activities which previously kept vegetation in check - grazing cattle and harvesting fuel and other resources - are no longer carried out, with the historic environment requiring manag... .... Learn More -
Cultural Property Acquisitions: Navigating the Shifting Landscape [Hardback]
Aimee L. Taberner (Author)
£65.50ISBN: 9781611321098
Published by : Left Coast Press
Museum staff are often overwhelmed by the complexities of
acquiring cultural property, particularly antiquities and archaeological material. Collecting practices now require a greater degree of
transparency and cooperation with various st... .... Learn More -
Cultural Property Acquisitions: Navigating the Shifting Landscape [Paperback]
Aimee L. Taberner (Author)
£20.95ISBN: 9781611321104
Published by : Left Coast Press
Museum staff are often overwhelmed by the complexities of
acquiring cultural property, particularly antiquities and archaeological material. Collecting practices now require a greater degree of
transparency and cooperation with various st... .... Learn More -
Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves [Hardback]
Layla Renshaw (Author)
£74.50ISBN: 9781611320411
Published by : Left Coast Press
Examines the contested representations
of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they
undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on... .... Learn More -
Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves [Paperback]
Layla Renshaw (Author)
£29.50ISBN: 9781611320428
Published by : Left Coast Press
Examines the contested representations
of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they
undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on... .... Learn More -
Becoming European: The transformation of third millennium Northern and Western Europe [Paperback]
Christopher Prescott (Editor); Hakon Glorstad (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781842174500
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 prehist... .... Learn More