Making Maritime Memories: The British Country House and the Sea
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.
Primary researchers and stakeholders involved:
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.