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Association for the History of Glass Board members (September 2009)
| Name |
Office |
Profile |
| Denise Allen |
Member of Board |
Denise Allen spent much of the 70s as an excavating archaeologist, and studied archaeology at Cardiff University, where she also completed her PhD on Roman Glass in Britain. She has written many glass reports for excavations since then, mainly in Britain. For 10 years she has worked for an archaeological travel company, but still maintains an active interest in Roman glass. Denise joined the Board in 2007. |
| Justine Bayley |
Grant Committee member |
Justine Bayley works for English Heritage as an archaeological scientist. Her research interests are in the broad area of past technologies, with a particular focus on non-ferrous metal and glass working in the Roman to medieval periods. She has published on Anglo-Saxon and Viking glass working in the British Isles and on the production and use of enamels in Roman Britain. Justine joined the AHG Board in 1991 and served as Honorary Secretary from 1994 -2004. |
| Colin Brain |
Member of Board |
Colin Brain and his wife Sue run a company that specialises in engineering-system validation. Over the last forty years they have been privately researching the history of British glass: particularly focusing on drinking glass in the second half of the seventeenth century. This period saw rapid commercial, technological and stylistic innovations that together provided the foundation for the British glass industry’s success. Colin joined the Board in 2004. |
| John Clark |
Membership Secretary |
John Clark has recently retired as Senior Curator of the medieval collections at the Museum of London, but maintains close ongoing links with the Museum. His interest in medieval glass was first sparked by the discovery in 1982, during excavations in the City of London, of a large group of fragmentary glass beakers of about 1300, decorated with coloured enamels, of the so-called ‘Syro-Frankish’ or ‘Aldrevandini’ type. As a member of AHG’s committee he organised a one-day conference on medieval glass in 1992, and with Rachel Tyson published a bibliography of medieval glass vessels found in Britain. With the first publication of Glass News in 1996 he took responsibility for Glass News subscriptions and later for printing and circulation, until relinquishing this role in early 2009. John has been a member of the Board since 1991. |
| David Crossley |
Grant Committee member |
David Crossley is Honorary Reader [retired] in the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. He is joint editor of the journal Historical Metallurgy, chairman of the English Heritage Industrial Archaeology Panel, a trustee of the Ironbridge [Telford] Heritage Foundation and vice-chair of the Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust. His fieldwork has been on the iron and glass industries: as well as work on blast furnace and forge sites in Britain and Europe. David excavated the glass furnaces at Bagots Park [Staffordshire], Hutton and Rosedale [North Yorkshire] and Kimmeridge [Dorset]. He is currently researching the work of surveyors during the industrial revolution. David has been a member of the Board since 1991 serving as Treasurer for a number of years. |
| Sandy Davison |
Honorary Secretary |
Sandra Davison (Hon. Sec.) trained in the conservation of archaeological materials. She spent 40 years as a conservator/restorer of glass and ceramics firstly at The British Museum and in then in her private practice. She has lectured widely in the UK and abroad, and published widely, including Conservation and Restoration of Glass. Now retired, she has a broad interest in the history and technology of ancient glass. Sandra joined the AHG Board and has served as Honorary Secretary since 2004. |
| Aileen Dawson |
Member of Board |
Aileen Dawson is Curator in the Department of Prehistory & Europe, British Museum, responsible for collections from 1660-1800, which include an extensive group of ceramics and glass, enamels, ivories and around 90 pieces of portrait sculpture. Her interests are French and German porcelain, English pottery and glass. Aileen is in charge of the Ceramic Study Centre (open by appointment for study of post-medieval ceramics and glass not currently on public view). Aileen joined the Board in 2003. |
| Caroline Jackson |
President |
Caroline Jackson (President) trained as an archaeologist and then undertook a master’s degree and a PhD in Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford specialising in the analysis of archaeological glasses. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Science at the University of Sheffield, U.K. Caroline’s research interests are in early materials and technologies and scientific methods of examination with a focus on the analysis of early vitreous materials. Caroline joined the Board in 2003, becoming President in 2006. |
| David Martlew |
Member of Board |
David Martlew graduated as a chemist from Manchester University; and undertook research at Sheffield University on the high temperature chemical reactions occurring during glass manufacture. He then spent forty years working as a glass technologist for Pilkington Brothers improving the furnaces and making them cheaper to operate. As an active member of the Society of Glass Technology, David pursued his interests in the history and heritage of glass and glassmaking. Through organising meetings and seminars in glass science, technology and history over several decades, he became convinced of the benefits of the interchange of ideas between artists, conservators, scientists and technologists. David joined the Board in 2000. |
| Martine Newby |
Member of Board |
Martine Newby BA, MPhil, FSA is an independent scholar, lecturer, and curator specializing in ancient and antique glass. After graduating in archaeology from Southampton University she entered the British Museum as exhibition assistant to "The Glass of the Caesars" (1987) and was co-editor with Kenneth Painter of "Roman Glass. Two Centuries of Art and Invention" (1991). Martine then worked for the London glass gallery of Sheppard and Cooper Ltd for several years before turning freelance and undertaking her MPhil on central Italian medieval glass at Durham University. She has curated a number of exhibitions, including "Glass of Four Millennia" (2000) at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to coincide with the publication of her handbook on the museum's glass collection, and "From Palace to Parlour. A Celebration of 19th-Century British Glass" (2003), held at the Wallace Collection, London. Other publications include "The Fascination of Ancient Glass. The Dolf Schut Collection" (1999), "The Turnbull Collection of English 18th-Century Drinking Glasses" (2006) for the National Trust, and "Byzantine Mould-Blown Glass from the Holy Land. The Shlomo Moussaieff Collection" (2008). Martine joined the Board in 2002. |
| Sarah Paynter |
Newsletter Editor |
Sarah Paynter (Glass News Editor) was a research scientist in various industries before completing a PhD on ancient Near Eastern glazes and glassy materials. She has co-edited Glass News since 2002 and joined the AHG board in 2008. Since 2000, she has worked as an archaeological scientist for English Heritage studying a wide range of materials, including glass of all periods from archaeological sites in England. Sarah joined the Board in 2008. |
| Jennifer Price |
Grant Committee member |
Jennifer Price became interested in archaeological glass at Masada in Israel in the mid 1960s. She then studied archaeology at Cardiff, writing her PhD on Roman Glass in Spain, and has since researched into glass in Britain and other parts of the Roman world, and also into aspects of Hellenistic, Byzantine and early Islamic glass. She has worked in the British Museum and in Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, and taught in the Universities of Cardiff, Leeds and Durham before retiring as Professor of Roman provincial archaeology in 2005. Jennifer joined the Board of AHG in 1979, was President from 1996-2003, and President of AIHV from 1998-2003. She is an editorial advisor to the Journal of Glass Studies and a trustee of the Bomford Collection in Bristol Museum and is currently working on the glass from Sidi Khrebish, Benghazi in Libya. |
| St John Simpson |
Member of Board |
St John Simpson is an archaeologist and a curator at the British Museum where he is responsible for the collections from ancient Iran and Arabia in the Department of the Middle East. He has excavated widely in the Middle East and Central Asia and one of his main research interests is the subject of Sasanian glass. He is currently preparing a series of monographs on his excavations at the major city-site of Merv in present-day Turkmenistan. St. John joined the Board in 2006. For further details go to:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/departments/staff/middle_east/st_john_simpson.aspx |
| Rachel Tyson |
Member of Board |
Rachel Tyson studied archaeology at the University of Durham. After working briefly at the Museum of London, she returned to Durham to complete her PhD on medieval glass vessels found in England, concerned with the role of glass vessels in medieval society as well as the styles and origins of the glass. She is a freelance researcher of glass of all periods, specialising in the medieval and post-medieval periods, and has worked on glass finds for many archaeology units and museums. Her recent research has included an assemblage of unusual Islamic-style medieval and later glass vessels from Plantation Place in the City of London, painted medieval window glass from the abbey of Holm Cultram, Cumbria, and Roman glassworking waste from a villa site in Somerset. She has worked as an editor of archaeological publications, for Oxford Archaeology and the Finds Research Group AD700-1700, before editing Glass News for the AHG from 2009. |
| Angela Wardle |
Treasurer |
Angela Wardle has a background in field archaeology and research, which includes a PhD in the study of Roman music, Angela has worked for the post-excavation department of Museum of London Archaeology as a finds researcher for the last twenty years, specialising in artefacts of the Roman period. During this period, with the encouragement of John Shepherd, she developed an interest in Roman glass and has worked on assemblages from sites in London and elsewhere. At present Angela is working, with John, on a major discovery of glass-working waste from Basinghall Street. She has been on the board of AHG for a year. Angela joined the Board in 2007. |
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