Category Archives: Archives Progress

Mystery Photograph

Some of the old photographs and glass plate negatives in our archive have no labels and we are having trouble working out where they were taken. Do you recognize this British seaside town? The glass plate photograph was taken in … Continue reading

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Thank you!

A big thank you to Dr Brendan O’Connor for his generous gift. We look forward to using the donation for conserving and cataloguing part of our Christopher Hawkes archive relating to his work in Bronze Age archaeology. Professor Christopher Hawkes … Continue reading

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Martyn Jope and the history of archaeological science

Professor Martyn Jope of the Queen’s University, Belfast was active in the promotion of archaeological science. He was one of a group of scholars who developed and promoted research in radiocarbon dating, DNA analysis, collagen and molecular archaeology. Our small … Continue reading

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Visitors’ Book

We had over 200 comments in our Visitors’ Book at the Jacobsthal Exhibition – thank you to everyone who visited and who took the time to comment. This is what some of our visitors wrote: Extracts from the exhibition’s visitor’s … Continue reading

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Exhibition Booklet

Persecution and Survival:  the Paul Jacobsthal Story by Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider, 2012 ‘Hitler will have my papers destroyed!’ Professor Paul Jacobsthal was a prominent and influential German arcaeologist whose world was turned upside down when Hitler came to power. Jacobsthal … Continue reading

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