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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Connecting Kids to History with Museum Exhibitions [Paperback]
D. Lynn McRainey (Author);John Russick (Author)
£26.95ISBN: 9781598743838
Published by : Left Coast Press
Kids have profound and important relationships to the past, but they don't experience history in the same way as adults. For museum professionals and everyone involved in informal history education and exhibition design, this book is the essent... .... Learn More -
Saltaire: The Making of A Model Town [Hardback]
Neil Jackson (Author); Jo Lintonbon (Author); Bryony Staples (Author)
£24.95ISBN: 9781904965213
Published by : Spire Books
This ground-breaking study analyses the building of Saltaire, the famous model town in West Yorkshire. Now a World Heritage Site, it was designed to provide mill-workers housing and is a superb example of enlightened urban planning, created dur... .... Learn More -
The Roman Garden: Space, Sense and Society [Hardback]
Katherine Von Stackelberg (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780415438230
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary... .... Learn More -
Masterpieces of the British Museum [Paperback]
J D Hill (Author)
£18.99ISBN: 9780714150680
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
This is the new glossy souvenir-style catalogue of the British Museum's finest pieces, and does pretty much what you would expect, coupling exquisite photography which brief but informative descriptions of the context and functions of the arte... .... Learn More -
Museums and the Construction of Disciplines: Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain [Paperback]
Christopher Whitehead (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780715635087
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conc... .... Learn More -
Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult' Heritage [Hardback]
William Logan (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9780415454490
Published by : Routledge Ltd
How should sites which represent the ugly side of humanity be dealth with? Some would argue that they should not even be considered heritage at all, whilst the current consensus is moving towards the idea of preservation and conservation. This ... .... Learn More -
Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult' Heritage [Paperback]
William Logan (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9780415454506
Published by : Routledge Ltd
How should sites which represent the ugly side of humanity be dealth with? Some would argue that they should not even be considered heritage at all, whilst the current consensus is moving towards the idea of preservation and conservation. This ... .... Learn More -
City Museums and City Development [Hardback]
Ian Jones (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9780759111806
Published by : AltaMira Press
Traditionally, city museums have been keepers of city history. Many have been exercises in nostalgia, reflecting city pride. However, a new generation of museums focuses increasingly on the city's present and future as well as its past, and on ... .... Learn More -
Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate Over Antiquities [Paperback]
James Cuno (Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9780691154435
Published by : Princeton University Press
This book gathers together curators and academics to elaborate further on James Cuno's arguments on cultural property, recently set out in his book Who Owns Antiquity . The contributors take a variety of starting points - legal, philosophical, ... .... Learn More -
The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Musuem [Hardback]
Lucia Patrizio Gunning (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780754660231
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
The book tells the story of how the British consular service in the Aegean, in the years of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815-1864) became an agency for the retrieval, excavation and collection of antiquities eventually desti... .... Learn More