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.[1][2]
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| Occupation(s) | Historian, Public historian, Archaeologist, Academic |
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| Discipline | Historical Archaeology |
| Institutions | Cultural Heritage Institute (RAU) |
Education and interests
editCassie 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.[1] Her other historical interests include mobile phones, telegraphy, wireless and radar.[3]
In 2016, Newland was curator for the exhibition Victorians Decoded: Art & Telegraphy at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.[1] It included a manifestation of The Great Automatic Grammatizator, a fictional machine invited by author Roald Dahl.[4]
Broadcast
editNewland has been a presenter and contributor on a variety of television and radio programmes. She has received awards for the public presentation of science.[1]
| Years | Title | Platform |
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| 2006 - 2013 | Time Team | Channel 4 |
| 2006 - | Coast | BBC Two |
| 2010 | A History of the World | BBC South West |
| 2010 - 2012 | Nick Knowles' Original Features[5] | UKTV |
| 2012 | Urban Secrets | Sky Atlantic |
| 2012 - 2013 | Wittgenstein's Jet | BBC Radio 3 |
| 2012 - 2013 | New Archaeologies | BBC Radio 3 |
| 2013 | The Genius of Invention | BBC Two |
| 2013 | The Great War Begins[6] | BBC and The Open University |
| 2015 | Time Crashers | Channel 4 |
| 2017 | Impossible Engineering | UKTV, Yesterday |
| 2019 | Impossible Railways | UKTV, Yesterday |
| 2020 | Ancient Engineering | Sky Atlantic, Discovery |
| Ongoing | The One Show | BBC One |
Selected works
editArticles
edit- 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
edit- 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 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ a b c d "Dr Cassandra Newland". Bath Spa. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Coast: Cassie Newland". BBC. Archived from the original on 24 March 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Cassie Newland". The Conversation. 21 September 2016. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Roald Dahl machine brought to life at Guildhall exhibition". Journalism.co.uk. 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Nick Knowles' Original Features Series 1 – 3". Dcdrights.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "The Great War Begins". Open.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2021.