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Glass News 23:  January 2008

Meeting Reports:
Byzantine Glass Mosaic Tesserae
    Liz James
History and Heritage of Glass Seminar at the SGT Annual Conference
    David Martlew
Glass in Architecture - an AHG Study Day
    Sarah Jennings & David Dungworth

Reviews:
Vessel Glass from Beirut - Archaeology of the Beirut Souks
    Sarah Jennings
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Glass News 22:  July 2007

Invitation:
Open invitation to join new International Network - the Composition of Byzantine Glass Mosaic Tesserae

Meeting Reports:
The Glass Industry: Constraints and Controls from the Medieval World to the 20th Century - an AHG Study Day
    Sandy Davison
AIHV 17th Congress, Antwerp - review part 2
    Suzanne Higgott
ICOM Glass Committee Annual Meeting
    Juanita Navarro

Reviews:
The Turnbull Collection of English 18th Century Drinking Glasses
    Martine Newby
Percival, Vickers & Co Ltd:  the Archaeology of a 19th century Manchester Flint Glass Works
    Ian Miller
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Glass News 21:  January 2007

Meeting Reports:
Experimental and Ethnographic Studies relating to Ancient Glass - an AHG study day
    Harriet White
AIHV 17th Congress, Antwerp - review part 1
    Suzanne Higgott
Blaschka Congress
    Julia Sigwart

Articles:
A medieval high-lead glass beaker from Oxford
    Rachel Tyson
Rituals Connected with Breaking Glass
    Sandy Davison
Glass in Siberia
    Sandy Davison

Reviews:
John Baker's late 17th Century Glasshouse at Vauxhall
    Kieron Tyler and Hugh Willmott
European Glass Furnishings for Eastern Palaces
    Jane Schadel Spillman
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Glass News 20:  July 2006

Meeting Reports:
Glass of the Roman Empire and Elsewhere
    Sarah Paynter
Ard et sciences - le verre dans l'Empire Romain
    Denise Allen

Interview:
Professor Jennifer Price

Articles:
Roman Glass Furnace Project 2006
    The Roman Glassmakers

Review:
John Baker's late 17th Century Glasshouse at Vauxhall
    Kieron Tyler and Hugh Willmott

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Glass News 19:  January 2006

Notes:
Cylinder glass for restoring the pinery at Tatton Park
    Jeremy Milln
New Stained Glass Gallery opens at the V&A
    Sherrie Eatman
Aesthetic Protective Glazing for Stained Glass Windows

Meeting Reports:
Study Day at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
    Julia Poole
Glass Studies in France
    Justine Bayley

Reviews:
Sasanian and Post Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass
    David Whitehouse
Glass:  From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations
    Sidney M. Goldstein
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Glass News 18:  June 2005

Meeting Reports:

Reviews:

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Glass News 17:  Winter 2004

Meeting Reports:
Creativity in Glass History and Heritage:
    April 2004, Liverpool

Reviews:
The International Festival of Glass and Glass Biennale, Stourbridge
    Jill Wilson
Beyond Venice: Glass in the Venetian Style, 1500-1750, Corning NY
    Suzanne Higgott

Articles:

Glass at the Museum of London: Completion of new store and access project
    Jenny Lister
The Wallace Collection: A Glass Trail
    Suzanne Higgott
Dalles de Verre
    Sherrie Eatman
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Glass News 16:  Autumn 2004

Meeting Reports:
Creativity in Glass History and Heritage:
    April 2004, Liverpool

Reviews:
The International Festival of Glass and Glass Biennale, Stourbridge
    Jill Wilson
Beyond Venice: Glass in the Venetian Style, 1500-1750, Corning NY
    Suzanne Higgott Articles:
Glass at the Museum of London: Completion of new store and access project
    Jenny Lister
The Wallace Collection: A Glass Trail
    Suzanne Higgott
Dalles de Verre
    Sherrie Eatman
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Glass News 15:  Spring 2004

Meeting Reports:
AHG Study Day: The archaeology of the post medieval urban glass industry
   
Articles:
An early medieval glass-worker’s dump, The Brooks, Winchester
    Cath Mortimer and Mike Heyworth
Conservation Matters: how to choose a professional glass conservator-restorer
   
The British Museum: A Glass Trail
    Ian Freestone
New acquisitions at the Stained Glass Museum, Ely
    Judith Neiswander
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Glass News 14:  Autumn 2003

Meeting Reports:
AIHV 2003 – 16th Congress
  
Articles:
On the Technological origins of Glass: Part 1: Evolution from metallurgical processes
    Kalliopi Nikita
Recent Research on the Assemblage of Tudor Glass from Gutter Lane, London
    Rose Clark
The Portland Vase: Roman or Renaissance
    Ian Freestone
Preliminary List of Glass Archival Holdings
    Paddy Baker

Book and Exhibition Reviews:
St John Simpson on
Cairo to Kabul: Afghan and Islamic Studies presented to Ralph Pinder-Wilson.
    Ed. W. Ball & L. Harrow (London 2002)
and
Fustat Glass of the Early Islamic Period: Finds excavated by the American Research Center in Egypt 1964-1980
    G.T. Scanlon & R. Pinder-Wilson (London 2001).
Hugh Wilmott on
Venise et Façon de Venise Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
    16th October 2003 – 4th January 2004
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Glass News 13:  Summer 2003

Meeting Reports:
Glass in the Islamic World: new discoveries, new ideas
    Ian Freestone
Symposium on the History and Heritage of Glass
    David Martlew

Excavations and Science at the site of Silkstone Glasshouse
    David Dungworth and Tom Cromwell
British Glass Bibliography 2002-2003
  
The Bear Garden Glasshouse, Southwark
    Colin Brain
A brief history of M’dina and some other contemporaneous Maltese art glass firms
    Michael Thomas Vaughan
Recent work on early glass production in Egypt
    Ian C Freestone
Obituary – R.G. (Roy) Newton
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Glass News 12:  Spring 2003

Window Glass Manufacture in the Weald
    Colin Clark
British Glass Bibliography 2000-2002
  
York Minster Glass from Staffordshire in the late 15th century
    Christopher Welch
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Glass News 11:  Spring 2002

Abstracts: 2000 years of Window Glass and Glazing
Roman Window Glass
    Jenny Price
7th - 10th century window glass from the British Isles
    Rosemary Cramp
Glass from Walraversigde 1465
    Danielle Caluwe

The London Archaeological Archive re-opens for business
    John Shepherd
Barometer World - Reconstruction of Medieval/17th century kiln
    Philip Collins.
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Glass News 10:  Autumn 2001

British Glass Bibliography 1999-2000

Book Reviews:
R. Tyson: Medieval glass vessels found in Britain c. AD 1200-1500
La vetrata in occidente dal IV all'XI secolo. Atti delle gionarte di studi Lucca, Villa Bottini 23-24-25 Settembre 1999.
    by F. Dell'Acqua and R. Silva (eds)
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Glass News 9:  January 2001

News from the Association
  
New Acquisitions in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1999-2000
    by Veronica Tatton-Brown
On technological change in Islamic glass production at Raqqa, Syria
    by Sean D. McLoughlin, Nargis Al-Sadiq, Julian Henderson     and David S. McPhail
No Pane, no Gain
    by Mark Taylor
Ancient Monuments Laboratory Reports relating to glass 1986 - 2000
    compiled by Justine Bayley

Conference Reviews:
Association Française pour l'Archeologie du Verre conference
    2nd-4th November 1999
AHG lead glass conference 16th November, 2000
    by Veronica Tatton-Brown
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Glass News 7 & 8:  Summer 2000

News from l'Association Internationale pour
    l'Histoire du Verre
Glass-blowing with the Time Team live in York
    by Denise Allen
Some unusual late 17th century vessel glass from Number 1 Poultry London
    by Hugh Wilmott
The good old days - or the way it was
    by John Clark
A Seventeenth century glasshouse at Calne?
    by Colin and Sue Brain
Excavations at Hopton Street in Southwark - an update
    by Victoria Ridgeway
A brief history of glassmaking in Scotland
    by K. Robin Murdoch
Glassmaking sites in Bagot's Park, Staffordshire - Further work carried out in 1998
    by Christopher Welch

Conference Reviews:
32nd Archaeometry Symposium
    Mexico City, May 2000
AHG How do they do that?
    Saturday 25th March 2000
Association Française pour l'Archeologie du Verre conference
    November 1999
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Glass News 6:  Summer 1999

Cristallo and the Lorraine Glassmakers
    by Don Tyzack
Glassmaking sites in Bagot's Park, Staffordshire - Further work carried out in 1998
    by Christopher Welch

Book Reviews:
Romano-British Glass Vessels: a handbook
    Price, J. and Cottam, S.
The Hamwic Glass
   Hunter, J. and Heyworth, M.
Roman Glass in Britain
    Allen, D.

Conference Abstracts:
Current Research on the History of Glass through scientific analysis Marhc
    AHG March 1999
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Glass News 5:  November 1998

Beads of the world - at Broadfield House
  
Crizzling and related problems in Glass - San Francisco July 1998
    by Victoria Oakley
The Corning Museum of Glass - 1998 Rakow and Richards awards winners
  
Birmingham's glass industry - a summary
    by Toni Demidowicz and Mike Holder

Book Reviews:
Gilded and enamelled glass from the Middle East
    Ward, R. (ed)
Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass: Volume One
    Whitehouse, D
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Glass News 4:  Winter 1997

Fieldwalking glassmaking sites in Bagot's Park Staffordshire
    by Christopher Welch
Romans and Uranium in Glass
    by Barrie Skelcher
The Turner Museum of glass at the University of Sheffield
    by Jim Smedley
Urban glasshouses of the 18th and 19th centuries
    by David Crossley
Lion mask stems from London: a preliminary survey
    by Hugh Wilmott
On making prismatic Roman bottles
    by Mark Taylor
Eynsham Abbey
    by Roger Doonan
A wonderful window
    by Justine Bayley
La Salle des verres grecs et romains, Louvre
    by Veronica Tatton-Brown

Conference Reviews:
ICOM in Israel
    September 1997
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Glass News 3:  Summer 1997

San Vicenzo update
    by Judith Stevenson
17th century repaired stems
    by Hugh Wilmott
Bead-making in York
    by Justine Bayley
60s Glassworking in Londinium?
    by John Shepherd

Conference Reviews:
AHG 'What's new in Roman glass?'
    May 1997
American Ceramic Society: Prehistory and history of glass and glassmaking'
    May 1997
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Glass News 2:  Winter 1996

Recent analytical studies on glass
    by Cath Mortimer and Ian Freestone
Excavations in Hopton Street, Southwark
    by Victoria Ridgeway
Public collections of glass abroad: some recent catalogues, Part II
    by Hugh Tait
Recycling a late medieval glass furnace
    by John Price
Reconstructing a Roman furnace
    by John Shepherd

Book reviews:
Roman mould-blown glass: the first through sixth centuries
    Stern, E.M. The Toledo Museum of Art.
Glass, tools and Tyzacks
    Tyzack, D.
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Glass News 1:  Spring 1996

Public collections of Glass Abroad: some recent catalogues
    by Hugh Tait
A new gallery for the Pilkington Collection
    by Ian Burgoyne
Blue moves:cobalt blue pigments in early glass
    by Ian Freestone
Research update on window glass and Anglo-Saxon beads
    by Catherine Mortimer
Conference Reviews:
13th Congress of the Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre
September 1995
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