Tim Schadla-Hall

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| birth_name = Richard Timothy Schadla-Hall

| birth_date = 24 September 1947

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| discipline = Archaeologist

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| workplaces = Institute of Archaeology, University College London

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Richard Timothy Schadla-Hall, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FSA}} (24 September 1947 – 9 January 2023) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of how the archaeological discipline interacts with the public. He was affiliated with the Institute of Archaeology at University College London in Bloomsbury, central London, where he worked as a Reader in Public Archaeology.

Life and career

Schadla-Hall was born on 24 September 1947.{{Cite web |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/ePdlPjA7xFs5WHdFBM5hWlVQmXQ/appointments |publisher=Companies House |title=Tim SCHADLA-HALL - Personal Appointments |access-date=2021-08-22}}{{Cite web |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/2CynNO7VHLQPLPn9iFgwy1WKcjA/appointments |publisher=Companies House |title=Richard Timothy SCHADLA-HALL - Personal Appointments |access-date=2021-08-22}}{{Cite web |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/pdBzkDS4AM-eoZbI_KMIiNGCylo/appointments |publisher=Companies House |title=Richard Timothy SCHADLA-HALL - Personal Appointments |access-date=2021-08-22}}{{Cite web |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/O-6oH1ndpFfevZijlXDzpWnIQiE/appointments |publisher=Companies House |title=Richard Timothy SCHADLA-HALL - Personal Appointments |access-date=2021-08-22}} In 1971, Schadla-Hall gained his BA in archaeology from the University of Cambridge, before attaining his MA there in 1974.{{Cite web|url=https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal?upi=TSCHA92|title = Iris View Profile}} His first book, Tom Sheppard: Hull's Great Collector, was published in 1989.

From 1985 to 1997, Schadla-Hall and Paul Mellars co-directed an excavation of the Mesolithic settlement site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire; it had previously been excavated by Grahame Clark in the late 1940s and early 1950s.{{cite book |last=Fagan |first=Brian |title=Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist |location=Boulder, CO |publisher=Westview Press |year=2001 |isbn=0-8133-3602-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/grahameclarkinte00faga/page/166 166] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/grahameclarkinte00faga/page/166 }}

Schadla-Hall was editor of the journal Public Archaeology [http://www.maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/pua/ Maney Publishing: Public Archaeology] (Accessed December 2011) and a trustee of the veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered, which conducts an annual excavation on the site of the Battle of Waterloo with veterans and serving personnel.{{Cite web |title=Tim Schadla-Hall {{!}} Waterloo Uncovered |url=https://waterloouncovered.com/about/our-people/trustees/tim-schadla-hall/ |access-date=2022-04-27 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=UCL |date=2020-03-11 |title=Award for Waterloo Uncovered charity founded by Institute alumni |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news/2020/mar/award-waterloo-uncovered-charity-founded-institute-alumni |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=Institute of Archaeology |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=WATERLOO UNCOVERED filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09533851/filing-history |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |language=en}}

On 1 January 1990, Schadla-Hall was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).{{cite web |title=Fellows Directory: Mr Richard Schadla-Hall |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/mr-richard-schadla-hall/ |website=Society of Antiquaries of London |access-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202212427/https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/mr-richard-schadla-hall/ |archive-date=2 February 2023}}

Schadla-Hall died on 9 January 2023, at the age of 75.{{Cite tweet |author= UCL Institute of Archaeology |user= UCLarchaeology |number= 1612826831635218439 |date= 10 January 2023 |title= It is with a heavy heart that we must relay the very sad news that Tim Schadla-Hall passed away yesterday. Tim was one of the Institute's larger than life characters & a much-loved member of our community for more than two decades. Our thoughts are with his family & friends.. |access-date= 2 February 2023 |link= https://twitter.com/UCLarchaeology/status/1612826831635218439 }}{{cite news |title=Richard Timothy Schadla-Hall death notice |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-january-28-2023-pprsp5dfb |access-date=28 January 2023 |work=The Times |date=28 January 2023}}

Bibliography

=Books=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" \|+
scope="col" \| Title ! scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Publisher ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| Other
scope="row" \| Tom Sheppard: Hull's Great Collector \| 1989 \| \|
scope="row" \| Art Treasures and War \| 1998 \| \| Co-written with Wojciech W. Kowalski
scope="row" \| Public Archaeology \| 2004 \| \| An edited volume, with Nick Merriman

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Publisher

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Other

scope="row" | Tom Sheppard: Hull's Great Collector

| 1989

scope="row" | Art Treasures and War

| 1998

| Co-written with Wojciech W. Kowalski

scope="row" | Public Archaeology

| 2004