In a little under two weeks I shall be starting a new job in the department of History & Classics at the University of Swansea. I will be Research Assistant on an ESRC-funded project entitled, History, heritage, and urban regeneration: the global and local worlds of Welsh copper. Project Leader, Prof Huw Bowen, won the… Continue reading New horizons in Welsh copper
Category: Old Heritage Archive
Archive of Tehmina Goskar’s Heritage posts, including on history, historical reviews and research and the public facing side of museums and culture (2004-19).
History at the End of the World?
I am very excited to announce the forthcoming publication of what promises to be one of the signature books on history and human survival. My own contribution to this book is not on my usual topic of research, but on the example of the Parsis, Zoroastrian Indians of Persian descent and their diaspora. It is… Continue reading History at the End of the World?
National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia
This is a quick response to a very good and pleasantly short blog post on Open Objects regarding the conflict caused by Wikimedia scraping high resolution ‘zoomified’ images from the NPG’s website and making them available. I concur with your thoughts. I don’t think Wikimedia is, however, anything other than extremely naive not to have… Continue reading National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia
Exhibition reviews on Creative Spaces
I thought about using Past Thinking as the place for exhibition and book reviews on museumy subjects that interest me, but instead I would like to contribute to content creation on Creative Spaces (National Museums Online Learning Project) particularly when the reviews related to items in the nine museum collections it hosts. I have recently… Continue reading Exhibition reviews on Creative Spaces
I like Creative Spaces
Creative Spaces does. No poking, no sheep throwing, no nonsense. The two posts below and the several comments are enough to set out the different views of Creative Spaces, or the National Museums Online Learning Project. I am not going to respond to the various criticisms leveled at the project as they do a good… Continue reading I like Creative Spaces
Who’s Who in Medieval Southern Italy
Last May, I gave a short cameo paper on the theme of identities in 11th century southern Italy. It revoles around two examples, one of the description of Duke Melo or Melus in William of Apulia’s poem in praise of Robert Guiscard (Book 1) and the second on the depiction of the Earth (tellus) in… Continue reading Who’s Who in Medieval Southern Italy
Fragmentation in the Middle Ages: Call for Papers
While the ‘Medieval Exchanges in southern Italy’ project has now ended, the work it has started has not! I will be co-organising a session at the forthcoming Theoretical Archaeology Conference 2008 at the University of Southampton entitled: Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the Middle Ages The conference will be held at the… Continue reading Fragmentation in the Middle Ages: Call for Papers
‘What do you want the future of Seaton Delaval to be?’ and ‘Will you help?’
These are the words of the National Trust‘s Director-General, Fiona Reynolds on a new kind of campaign by the trust to get the public to decide the future of Seaton Delaval Hall, its gardens, grounds and a large area of countryside in south Northumberland near Blyth. The Trust intend to purchase the house and its… Continue reading ‘What do you want the future of Seaton Delaval to be?’ and ‘Will you help?’
Olio e vino nell’alto medioevo
The 54th Settimana di studio (study week conference), hosted by the Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo (CISAM) was themed ‘Oil and Wine in the High Middle Ages‘ and took place in the beautiful medieval town of Spoleto, Umbria (20-26 April 2006). I was fortunate to have won one of the borsa di studio awarded… Continue reading Olio e vino nell’alto medioevo
Medieval Food and Feasting, and the emperor Charlemagne
Tehmina has now written two books, aimed at young adults (but very readable by any age really!). Her first is entitled “Medieval Feasts and Banquets: Food, Drink, and Celebration in the Middle Ages” which gives a great introduction to the subject, and blows away quite a few myths (bones being chucked over shoulders onto sawdust… Continue reading Medieval Food and Feasting, and the emperor Charlemagne