Beyond Notability

In October 2021 I started work as Co-Investigator of a 3-year AHRC funded research project, "Beyond Notability: Re-Evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage in Britain, 1870-1950." This interdisciplinary project combines historical research with inclusive cataloguing methodologies and digital humanities approaches to produce a new understanding of women's engagements in the fields of archaeology, history and heritage in the past. More information can be found on the project website: www.beyondnotability.org.

exhibitions

Collaborations

Curator, Mapping Collections Histories: Barbados and Britain Interactive Digital Exhibition (University of Reading Museums & Collections) 

Curator, ​Egypt in Reading: Stories from the Liverpool Collection Digital Exhibition (Ure Routes blog).

Co-Curator, Hidden Women in the Ure Museum Digital Exhibition  (Ure Routes blog).

Co-Curator, Egypt in Reading: Stories from the Liverpool Collection, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (26 Feb-present).

Co-Curator, Allen Seaby's Archaeology for Children, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (11 Sep 2019-21 Feb 2020)

Co-Curator, Hidden in the Archive: Collectors, Curators and Cataloguers, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (12 Jun-10 Sep 2019) ​

Animating Caribbean Collections at the British Museum

This collaborative project focused on working with two creative practitioners and Museum staff to explore collections histories of a selection of artefacts from the Caribbean in the British Museum. Through a combination of research and creative practice, it highlight the role of African descendant communities in the Caribbean  in archaeological discovery. The project was funded through the University of London Knowledge Exchange fund.

The project website, including a progress blog post and the recording of final presentations of the project in July 2023, can be found here.

University of Reading and British Museum
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As Research Officer based at the University of Reading, I  led a University of Reading/British Museum partnership project, "Narrating the Diverse Past". The project included collections history research, a digital interactive exhibition on collections histories linking Britain and Barbados, a survey, and a workshop entitled "Exploring Collections, Archaeology and Empire". The project website launched in January 2021.

British School at Athens

I worked with the British School at Athens on a series of films about women associated with the history of the School, which were launched in May 2020.  I was involved in developing the series, co-wrote the script with staff at the School, and provided audio narration and some film sequences. 

BSA Hidden Histories (Series 2)
Introduction
Episode 1 Emily Penrose
Episode 2 Emily Penrose
Episode 3 Mary Gardner
Episode 4 Ellen Sophia Bosanquet

Filming Antiquity

A collaborative digitisation project which ran 2014-16 at University College London. I led an interdisciplinary team, to  research, digitise and promote historic excavation footage from the early 20th century. Visit the project website here.

UCL History of archaeology Network

In 2010 I founded the History of Archaeology Network at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.  Since then I have been organising events and workshops on topics in the history of archaeology every academic year. You can find out more about the Network's past and current activities here.  

I also set up and run the Network's website. This features history of archaeology related events, a blog, and directories of history of archaeology projects and archives related to the history of archaeology.  This website is updated regularly, and contributions are warmly welcomed.

In 2020, due to the continuing pandemic, Network activities moved entirely online with the "Historians of Archaeology" series, comprising written and audio interviews with researchers in the history of archaeology.