Abigail Baker

Biographic Data

ID3861303
NAMEAbigail Baker
GIVEN NAMESAbigail
FAMILY NAMEBaker
SIGNATUREBAKER A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Warwick
ORCID0000-0002-2650-1394
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Searching for Pater’s Gold Flower on a Silver Stalk in Schliemann’s Mycenae

    Open AccessAbigail BakerARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2025

    The archaeological discoveries made by Heinrich Schliemann were highly controversial, with implications for the discipline of archaeology and wider understanding of the ancient world. They offered to extend the history of Greek art back further into time and provided a new body of material that was radically different from Classical Greek art. Pater’s ‘The Heroic Age of Greek Art’ is an important early attempt to make sense of these finds. This a…

  • Teaching Justice-Involved Adolescents Basic Financial Literacy Skills

    Open AccessDaniel J Sheridan, Ashley Anderson et al.ARTICLEBehavior and Social Issues2025Cited by: 2References: 14

  • Labyrinth

    Abigail BakerARTICLEWest 86th2023

  • Artifacts

    Abigail BakerARTICLEWest 86th2022

  • Myths of the Odyssey in the British Museum (and beyond)

    Open AccessAbigail BakerARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2020References: 12

    Jane Ellen Harrison’s early work giving tours and lectures in London’s museums offers an unusual window on visitor experience in the late nineteenth century. This article examines the composition and motivations of her audience, looking at how Harrison’s lectures addressed gendered and class-based anxieties about their access to education and ability to respond appropriately to prestigious objects. Harrison used Greek vases to tell stories from a…

  • Breaking through the language barrier - bringing 'dead' languages to life through sensory and narrative engagement

    Open AccessAbigail Baker, Alison CooleyARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2018Cited by: 4References: 22

    Ancient inscriptions can be difficult to understand and off-putting to museum audiences, but they are packed with personal stories and vivid information about the people who made them. This article argues that overcoming the language barrier presented by these objects can offer a deep sense of engagement with the ancient world and explores possible ways of achieving this. It looks at examples of effective approaches from a range of European museu…

  • The Ithaca jewel

    Abigail BakerARTICLEJournal of the History of…2016

    The story of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s so-called ‘Ithaca jewel’ appears to be a typical one for a forgery: hopeful acquisition, uncomfortable research and finally oblivion. This article asks what is missing from such a story by looking deeper at the circumstances surrounding the jewel’s creation, revealing a history that links it to the excavators of Bassae and Aegina. In light of this deeper history, the Ithaca jewel reflects the attitudes and in…

  • Everything good we stood for’

    Abigail BakerARTICLEClassical Receptions Journal2016References: 11

    This article looks at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s 1944 Exhibition of Greek Art 3000 B.C.—A.D. 1938 in its wartime context. It explores why the British and Greek governments put resources into a museum exhibition at this time and how ancient Greece was used to define both British and Greek national identity and to express the nations’ shared values. It reconstructs the exhibition to give an in-depth account of how it achieved these goals and reveal t…