Category Archives: Archives Progress

Schliemann’s ‘Troja’: from Ohio to Oxford

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

Books are a vehicle for transmitting information through the written word, but they are also objects, things, material culture. Like other objects, they are created, have ‘lives’, and will, eventually, ‘die’. They can be bought and sold, possessed, hidden, cached, … Continue reading →

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The Jacquetta Hawkes Collection, Portugal, 1949.

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

Remember this box discovered during recent building works? Today’s posting comes from undergraduate Dalva Gerberon, who has been investigating. Over to you, Dalva… I undertook the study of the Jacquetta Hawkes collection for the Archives of the Oxford Institute of Archaeology in … Continue reading →

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Jacobsthal’s Dissertation

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

by Francesca Anthony Over the last few weeks of volunteering in the Institute of Archaeology’s Archive, I have been attempting to sort the 1908 dissertation of the scholar Paul Jacobsthal. Jacobsthal came to Oxford in the mid 1930s after the … Continue reading →

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What’s happening in the archive?

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

Well, it’s been busy round here. The new rolling stacks have made a big difference to life in the archive. At last the archives are beginning to be more accessible. Thank you, School of Archaeology! Before the stacks went in, … Continue reading →

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Repurposing the lantern slide way

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

One of our volunteers spotted this in one of the Institute’s lantern slide boxes and called it to our attention: What was it that attracted his interest? Was it the little round label ‘6054’ which indicated that the slide had … Continue reading →

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