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Dunston Hill, Whickham. The evolution of a country house and estate over three centuries (2024)
Journal Article
Pears, R. (2024). Dunston Hill, Whickham. The evolution of a country house and estate over three centuries. Archaeologia Aeliana, 6(3), 307-342

The Dunston Hill estate was created by the Carr (later Carr-Ellison) family, whose mercantile connections stretched from British America to the Baltic. Income from trade, agriculture, coal mining and banking
enabled the family to build and later ext... Read More about Dunston Hill, Whickham. The evolution of a country house and estate over three centuries.

Connected fragments: an early Hong Kong archaeological collection (2024)
Journal Article
Fraser, T. C., Sung, A. P. Y., & Chiesa, B. (online). Connected fragments: an early Hong Kong archaeological collection. Journal of the History of Collections, Article fhae025. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhae025

During a refurbishment project at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong in 2018, a large collection of uncatalogued artefacts was discovered. Between February and September 2021 an internal project team conducted a prel... Read More about Connected fragments: an early Hong Kong archaeological collection.

Metamaterials genome: progress towards a community toolbox for ai metamaterials discovery (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Earnshaw, J., Syrotiuk, N., Duncan, O., Kaczmarczyk, L., Scarpa, F., & Szyniszewski, S. (2024, April). Metamaterials genome: progress towards a community toolbox for ai metamaterials discovery. Presented at 2024 UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference, Durham, UK

Understanding the limits of the design space is a key aspect in optimising complex hierarchical structures and is vital for exploring and designing novel Metamaterials. Simultaneously, abundant data (mostly text, images, and location) aggregated by m... Read More about Metamaterials genome: progress towards a community toolbox for ai metamaterials discovery.

Dead and dying bodies (2024)
Book Chapter
Westerhof, D. (2024). Dead and dying bodies. In D. Davies (Ed.), Cultural history of death in the middle ages (25-40). (1). Bloomsbury

Protecting Dispersed Collections: A Framework for Managing the at-Risk Heritage Assets of Catholic Religious Institutes (2023)
Report
Bush, J. (2023). Protecting Dispersed Collections: A Framework for Managing the at-Risk Heritage Assets of Catholic Religious Institutes. RLUK

The aim of this project was to gather information on the archive management practices for all religious institutes of England and Wales and to propose viable solutions for their long-term preservation, ensuring their continuity beyond the lifespan of... Read More about Protecting Dispersed Collections: A Framework for Managing the at-Risk Heritage Assets of Catholic Religious Institutes.

‘Temples of Knowledge: The Classical Architecture of Public Libraries and Mechanics Institutes’ (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pears, R. (2023, July). ‘Temples of Knowledge: The Classical Architecture of Public Libraries and Mechanics Institutes’. Paper presented at Classical Presences in North-East England, St Chad's College, Durham University

Wealthy Britons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries embraced the classical world through their education in public schools and universities, and Grand Tours of classical monuments in Europe. They lived, ruled and played in classical-style coun... Read More about ‘Temples of Knowledge: The Classical Architecture of Public Libraries and Mechanics Institutes’.

A fresh perspective: the impact of interns on research and culture (2023)
Book Chapter
Baguley, N., & Endersby-Marsh, H. (2023). A fresh perspective: the impact of interns on research and culture. In A. Priestner (Ed.), User Experience in Libraries: Yearbook 2023 (150-156). UXLibs

In 2019 we applied for and were appointed to new library intern posts at Durham University, partially as a result of two of our colleagues attending UXLibsV and hearing Claire Browne’s presentation ‘Internships and Ethnography: Students Researching S... Read More about A fresh perspective: the impact of interns on research and culture.

Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England (2022)
Journal Article
Pears, R. (2022). Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England. Northern History, 59(2), 194-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2022.2116743

Margaret Farrington was a single woman declared to be a lunatic in 1765 and moved with legal authority from a fashionable London residence to lodgings in her home town, Newcastle upon Tyne. Analysis of her possessions in an inventory and biographical... Read More about Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England.

A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45 (2019)
Journal Article
Pears, R. (2019). A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45. Northern History, 56(1-2), 117-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2019.1660065

This article will examine the responses to the dangers of the Second World War by a local authority in north-east England, Whickham Urban District Council. Councillors and officials received guidance from central Government, Durham County Council and... Read More about A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45.

Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs (2019)
Journal Article
Casselden, B., & Pears, R. (2020). Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52(2), 601-619. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000619841429

Ebooks have enthusiastically been adopted by academic libraries, viewed as a golden bullet by library professionals, resulting in efficient resource use, space saving, student satisfaction and accommodating millennial generation study habits. A small... Read More about Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs.

Very Strange Sit-Coms: J. G. Ballard, Psychopathology, and Online Participatory Media (2019)
Journal Article
Gleghorn, M. (2019). Very Strange Sit-Coms: J. G. Ballard, Psychopathology, and Online Participatory Media. Humanities, 8(1), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010050

“We’re all going to be starring in our own sit-coms, and they’ll be very strange sit-coms too, like the inside of our heads.”—J. G. Ballard, Extreme Metaphors. Ballard’s prediction about the possibility of projecting the inside of our own heads is hi... Read More about Very Strange Sit-Coms: J. G. Ballard, Psychopathology, and Online Participatory Media.