Making Maritime Memories: The British Country House and the Sea

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The project will work with staff at properties that celebrate their maritime connections: Buckland Abbey, one time home of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) and Shugborough Hall, owned by Thomas Anson, younger brother of Admiral George Anson (1697-1762), who circumnavigated the globe. The project brings a specifically archaeological and contextual perspective to these properties and their collections, recasting objects—and the absence of objects—at both properties within cycles of remembering and forgetting, as time and changes in fashion negated or reanimated earlier maritime heritage. The KEF will work with curators to co-produce new tools and resources with the specific aim of enhancing visitor experience and increasing footfall. 

 

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Julie Farguson (Faculty of History) has been awarded a Social Sciences Division’s Knowledge Exchange Fellowship (Business and Industry) to implement an innovative collaboration between OCMA and the National Trust, PI’d by Linda Hulin and Helena Hamerow.

 

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