December 2, 2013
CATH award
Research which has its origins in the ‘Representing Re-Formation’ project has received another award, from the innovative CATH project run […]
Category: Archaeology, Art History, General, Science
November 25, 2013
Two new Doctoral Training Centres funded by AHRC and EPSRC
Excellent news for the next generation of Heritage Science Researchers! The Midlands is enhancing its status as a centre of […]
Category: Archaeology, Art History, General, History, Science
November 2, 2013
Science and Heritage Conference, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster
The conference on 29-30 October 2013 was everything one could have hoped for, with an excellent and rather lovely guide […]
Category: Archaeology, Art History, Campaign, Design Theme, General, History, Science
October 27, 2013
Science & Heritage: Sustaining the Impact Conference
The Science & Heritage Programme’s final event takes place at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on tuesday 29th and […]
Category: Archaeology, Art History, Campaign, Design Theme, General, History, Science
October 17, 2013
Meet the Tudors!
Category: Archaeology, Art History, Design Theme, General, History
October 13, 2013
Exhibition Opening, The Ancient House Museum, Thetford [to 29 March 2014]
The exhibition, ‘Thetford’s Lost Tudor Sculptures’, on which I worked with Ross Parry of Museums Studies, Oliver Bone, Curator at […]
Category: Art History, Campaign, General
July 18, 2013
BETA app testing
After a lot of hard work we have a working project app! It is in BETA phase as there is […]
Category: General
June 27, 2013
Talking pictures
One of the features we are trying to produce for our exhibition in Thetford is a talking portrait of the […]
May 8, 2013
Have you seen…?
The most intriguing piece of iconography I have encountered in my study of the Surrey tomb is the coronet […]
Category: Art History, General, History
April 23, 2013
Significant insignia
Looking at the calendar reminds me of the reason why I first came to look at the Framlingham tombs, and […]
Category: General
January 24, 2013
You never know what you will find here…
As mentioned in a previous post, an historian can travel far and wide looking for material pertinent to their research. […]
Category: General
January 8, 2013
Heritage Artefacts Down Under & On A Bus Route
In December I was fortunate enough to be in Australia for a couple of weeks and I was struck by […]
Category: Design Theme, General
Tagged: australia, heritage, local, location
December 14, 2012
Bones and Stones. St Catharine’s College, Cambridge 3D Scanning and Digitisation Conference
This was a wonderfully interesting and intellectually stimulating conference. The budgetary assistance allocated by Ross Parry’s team was augmented by […]
Category: General
December 1, 2012
The Grand Etang
Immediately to the north-west of Boughton House are the remains of the Grand Etang, one of the earliest surviving features […]
Category: Art History, General
November 21, 2012
Monumental Quirks 2 – Lowick
Before I get onto quirks, I want to address the fact that St Peter’s Church, Lowick is one of the […]
Category: General
Charles Alfred Stothard d. 1821
Charles Alfred Stothard d. 1821: the greatest ever draughtsman of monumental sculpture? Charles Alfred Stothard died, ironically enough, when he […]
Category: General
October 29, 2012
Ghostly remains: the Howard Chapel at Lambeth
While tracking the remains of the Howard tombs, one sometimes encounters nothing more than just a hint of the […]
Category: General, History
Tagged: brass, Howard, lambeth, tomb
May 12, 2012
From Wales to Dover
People think scholars lead a quite sedentary existence, but research can involve a great deal of travel! The resources from […]
Category: General, History
Tagged: dover; wales, northampton, Trinity Hospital
February 9, 2012
February 2012 Video Update
Here is a quick video update based on our last board meeting together.
Category: General
December 11, 2011
The Northampton tomb at Trinity Hospital
In October I visited Trinity Hospital, a lovely almshouse managed by the Mercers’ Company, which provides housing with support for […]
Category: Art History, General, History
Tagged: effigy, fragment, northampton, tomb, Trinity Hospital
