Helen Wickstead
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 110059 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Helen Wickstead |
| PRENOMES | Helen |
| SOBRENOME | Wickstead |
| ASSINATURA | WICKSTEAD H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kingston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4115-7672 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Palaeoliths and Pareidolia
Photography played an important part in the revelation of deep time in the later nineteenth century, leading to the invention of a new epoch – the palaeolithic. This article investigates how photography participated in creating palaeoliths, eoliths, and stone collectables in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when the boundaries between artefacts and non-artefacts, culture and nature, were at issue. I examine the emergence of visual …
Tom Armstrong Bowes, Herne Bay Museum and the Lower Palaeolithic of the Kentish Stour
The Palaeolith collection of the antiquarian Dr Tom Armstrong Bowes was the founding component of Herne Bay’s first museum and became one of the larger and more significant collections in the British Palaeolithic record. Its value to debates on the British Palaeolithic, however, has been limited by a stark lack of contextual data. Previously unstudied museum archives have now begun to unlock the lost provenance of this large collection so that it…
Men-only clubs and museums
Recent years have seen greater interest than ever in the small volunteer-run organisations that constitute the majority of British museums today. Rather than comparing the histories of small museums to those of larger institutions, we approach small museums as part of a local network of voluntary associations. Using the small town of Herne Bay as a case study, we show how associational culture historically empowered middle-class men who were memb…
Soho Typescripts
Soho Typescripts were a distinctive type of handmade pornography associated with London’s Soho in the 1950s and 1960s. Thousands were produced, but only a proportion survive today. This article presents the first dedicated study of Soho Typescripts based on examination of 50 typescripts from the British Library, a private collection and recent acquisitions by the Museum of London. The article summarizes their distinguishing characteristics and di…
Sex in the Secret Museum
Cupboard 55 of the British Museum contains what remains of its Secretum -the secret museum of artefacts once deemed too sexually explicit for public display.A large part of the Secretum derived from a 'Collection Illustrative of Phallic Worship' donated by George Witt in 1865-6 1 .Witt's bequest included images and texts as well as objects, many of which are now dispersed across different departments 2 .Within the Anthropology Library is a set of…
Concrete Prehistories
After water, concrete is the most consumed substance on earth. Every year enough cement is produced to manufacture around six billion cubic metres of concrete . This paper investigates how concrete has been built into the construction of modern prehistories. We present an archaeology of concrete in the prehistoric landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury, where concrete is a major component of megalithic sites restored between 1901 and 1964. We explo…
Geochemical survey and metalworking
A Spectacular History of Survey by Flying Machine
The origins of archaeological methods are often surprising, revealing unexpected connections between science, art and entertainment. This article explores aerial survey, a visual method commonly represented as distancing or objective. We show how aerial survey's visualizing practices embody subjective notions of vision emerging throughout the nineteenth century. Aerial survey smashes linear perspective, fragments time-space, and places radical do…
The Uber Archaeologist
This article emerges from collaboration with visual artist Janet Hodgson on excavations around Stonehenge. Experiencing Hodgson at work led me to re-examine how archaeologists think about visuality, particularly in criticism of the male gaze. Ideas of the gaze have significantly influenced the directions taken in studies of landscape and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) over the last 15 years. In this article I expand on and develop theoret…
Historical context and chronology of Bronze Age land enclosure on Dartmoor, UK
Reply to 'Prehistory as Propaganda'
The Uber Archaeologist
This article emerges from collaboration with visual artist Janet Hodgson on excavations around Stonehenge. Experiencing Hodgson at work led me to re-examine how archaeologists think about visuality, particularly in criticism of the male gaze. Ideas of the gaze have significantly influenced the directions taken in studies of landscape and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) over the last 15 years. In this article I expand on and develop theoret…
Historical context and chronology of Bronze Age land enclosure on Dartmoor, UK
Geochemical survey and metalworking
A Spectacular History of Survey by Flying Machine
The origins of archaeological methods are often surprising, revealing unexpected connections between science, art and entertainment. This article explores aerial survey, a visual method commonly represented as distancing or objective. We show how aerial survey's visualizing practices embody subjective notions of vision emerging throughout the nineteenth century. Aerial survey smashes linear perspective, fragments time-space, and places radical do…
Tom Armstrong Bowes, Herne Bay Museum and the Lower Palaeolithic of the Kentish Stour
The Palaeolith collection of the antiquarian Dr Tom Armstrong Bowes was the founding component of Herne Bay’s first museum and became one of the larger and more significant collections in the British Palaeolithic record. Its value to debates on the British Palaeolithic, however, has been limited by a stark lack of contextual data. Previously unstudied museum archives have now begun to unlock the lost provenance of this large collection so that it…
Concrete Prehistories
After water, concrete is the most consumed substance on earth. Every year enough cement is produced to manufacture around six billion cubic metres of concrete . This paper investigates how concrete has been built into the construction of modern prehistories. We present an archaeology of concrete in the prehistoric landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury, where concrete is a major component of megalithic sites restored between 1901 and 1964. We explo…
Reply to 'Prehistory as Propaganda'
Historical context and chronology of Bronze Age land enclosure on Dartmoor, UK
The Uber Archaeologist
This article emerges from collaboration with visual artist Janet Hodgson on excavations around Stonehenge. Experiencing Hodgson at work led me to re-examine how archaeologists think about visuality, particularly in criticism of the male gaze. Ideas of the gaze have significantly influenced the directions taken in studies of landscape and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) over the last 15 years. In this article I expand on and develop theoret…
A Spectacular History of Survey by Flying Machine
The origins of archaeological methods are often surprising, revealing unexpected connections between science, art and entertainment. This article explores aerial survey, a visual method commonly represented as distancing or objective. We show how aerial survey's visualizing practices embody subjective notions of vision emerging throughout the nineteenth century. Aerial survey smashes linear perspective, fragments time-space, and places radical do…
Geochemical survey and metalworking
Concrete Prehistories
After water, concrete is the most consumed substance on earth. Every year enough cement is produced to manufacture around six billion cubic metres of concrete . This paper investigates how concrete has been built into the construction of modern prehistories. We present an archaeology of concrete in the prehistoric landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury, where concrete is a major component of megalithic sites restored between 1901 and 1964. We explo…
Sex in the Secret Museum
Cupboard 55 of the British Museum contains what remains of its Secretum -the secret museum of artefacts once deemed too sexually explicit for public display.A large part of the Secretum derived from a 'Collection Illustrative of Phallic Worship' donated by George Witt in 1865-6 1 .Witt's bequest included images and texts as well as objects, many of which are now dispersed across different departments 2 .Within the Anthropology Library is a set of…
Soho Typescripts
Soho Typescripts were a distinctive type of handmade pornography associated with London’s Soho in the 1950s and 1960s. Thousands were produced, but only a proportion survive today. This article presents the first dedicated study of Soho Typescripts based on examination of 50 typescripts from the British Library, a private collection and recent acquisitions by the Museum of London. The article summarizes their distinguishing characteristics and di…
Men-only clubs and museums
Recent years have seen greater interest than ever in the small volunteer-run organisations that constitute the majority of British museums today. Rather than comparing the histories of small museums to those of larger institutions, we approach small museums as part of a local network of voluntary associations. Using the small town of Herne Bay as a case study, we show how associational culture historically empowered middle-class men who were memb…
Palaeoliths and Pareidolia
Photography played an important part in the revelation of deep time in the later nineteenth century, leading to the invention of a new epoch – the palaeolithic. This article investigates how photography participated in creating palaeoliths, eoliths, and stone collectables in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when the boundaries between artefacts and non-artefacts, culture and nature, were at issue. I examine the emergence of visual …
Tom Armstrong Bowes, Herne Bay Museum and the Lower Palaeolithic of the Kentish Stour
The Palaeolith collection of the antiquarian Dr Tom Armstrong Bowes was the founding component of Herne Bay’s first museum and became one of the larger and more significant collections in the British Palaeolithic record. Its value to debates on the British Palaeolithic, however, has been limited by a stark lack of contextual data. Previously unstudied museum archives have now begun to unlock the lost provenance of this large collection so that it…
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