Cassie Newland
{{Short description|British archaeologist, public historian and academic}}
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Cassie Newland is a British archaeologist, public historian and academic. She is Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage and Director of the Cultural Heritage Institute at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) in Swindon. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Public History at Bath Spa University and Research Associate at King's College London. She regularly appears on historical and science broadcast media as a resident expert, including Time Team, Time Crashers, and Coast.{{Cite web|title=Dr Cassandra Newland|url=https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/cassandra-newland/|url-status=live|access-date=12 May 2021|website=Bath Spa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124094823/https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/cassandra-newland/ |archive-date=2021-01-24 }}{{Cite web|title=Coast: Cassie Newland|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5nQkPq3gwKtJns7jJyc07jz/cassie-newland|url-status=live|access-date=12 May 2021|website=BBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324223742/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/programmes/profiles/5nQkPq3gwKtJns7jJyc07jz/cassie-newland |archive-date=2017-03-24 }}
Education and interests
Cassie Newland completed her master's in historical archaeology and PhD in archaeology in at the University of Bristol. Her research specialisms include nineteenth century technological colonialism, slavery and the Atlantic world, and industrial and contemporary archaeology. Her other historical interests include mobile phones, telegraphy, wireless and radar.{{Cite web|title=Cassie Newland|url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/cassie-newland-301413|url-status=live|access-date=12 May 2021|website=The Conversation|date=21 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122200203/http://theconversation.com:80/profiles/cassie-newland-301413 |archive-date=2019-01-22 }}
In 2016, Newland was curator for the exhibition Victorians Decoded: Art & Telegraphy at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. It included a manifestation of The Great Automatic Grammatizator, a fictional machine invited by author Roald Dahl.{{Cite web|date=24 October 2016|title=Roald Dahl machine brought to life at Guildhall exhibition|url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/press-releases/roald-dahl-machine-brought-to-life-at-guildhall-exhibition/s66/a684642/|url-status=live|access-date=12 May 2021|website=Journalism.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512201547/https://www.journalism.co.uk/press-releases/roald-dahl-machine-brought-to-life-at-guildhall-exhibition/s66/a684642/ |archive-date=2021-05-12 }}
Broadcast
Newland has been a presenter and contributor on a variety of television and radio programmes. She has received awards for the public presentation of science.
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| 2006 - 2013 |
| 2006 - |
| 2010
|A History of the World |
| 2010 - 2012
|UKTV |
| 2012
|Urban Secrets |
| 2012 - 2013
|Wittgenstein's Jet |
| 2012 - 2013
|New Archaeologies |
| 2013 |
| 2013
|The Great War Begins{{Cite web|title=The Great War Begins|url=https://www.open.ac.uk/about/broadcast-media-sales/tv-sales/history-culture/great-war-begins|url-status=live|access-date=12 May 2021|website=Open.ac.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925071654/http://www.open.ac.uk:80/about/broadcast-media-sales/tv-sales/history-culture/great-war-begins |archive-date=2015-09-25 }} |BBC and The Open University |
| 2015 |
| 2017 |
| 2019
|Impossible Railways |
| 2020
|Ancient Engineering |
| Ongoing |
Selected works
= Articles =
- Bailey, G, Newland, C, Nilsson, A and Schofield, J (2009). 'Transit, transition: excavating J641 VUJ.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 19 (1). pp. 1–28.
- Schofield, J, Newland, C, Bailey, G and Nilsson, A (2009). 'Sic transit gloria mundi.' British Archaeology, 92. pp. 16–21.
= Chapters =
- Newland, C (2020) 'Economic objects.' In: White, C.L, ed. A cultural history of objects: in the age of industry - volume 5. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 57–76.
- Newland, C (2016) Sections on 'Chatterton's Compound', 'Gutta percha', 'Telegraphic Copper', 'The Marine Galvanometer', 'Sir Charles Wheatstone's Notes', '1866: The Year Communication Changed Forever'. In: Arscott, C., & Pettit, C. ed Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition [http://www.scrambledmessages.ac.uk/documents/52/Victorians_Decoded__P32Plrd.pdf Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy]. London: The Courtauld Institute of Art & King’s College London.
- Newland, C (2012) 'Mr Hopgood's Shed: an archaeology of Bishop’s Cannings wireless station’ in Beyond the Dead Horizon: Studies in 20th-Century Conflict Archaeology, Nicholas Saunders (ed.). British Archaeological Reports. Archaeopress, Oxford.
- Newland, C (2009) 'Marconi's first transatlantic wireless transmission.' In: Schofield, J, ed. Defining moments: dramatic archaeologies of the twentieth-century. Archaeopress (BAR), Oxford, pp. 9–18.
= Excavations =
- 2009. Turbo Island: an archaeology of Homelessness. Public archaeology project run as drop-in site for students and public alike. Part of a larger English Heritage funded project exploring the archaeology of contemporary homelessness.
- 2006. The Van Project. The now infamous excavation of a 1991 Ford Transit van. Successful experimental exercise into the archaeology of vehicles.
References
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External links
- [https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/cassandra-newland/ Cassie Newland], Bath Spa University
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