Beyond 'Notability': Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage in Britain, 1870 - 1950

超越“知名度”：重新评估 1870 年至 1950 年英国女性考古、历史和遗产工作

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V01384X/1
负责人：
Katherine Harloe
金额：
$ 94.77万
依托单位：
University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV01384X%2F1
关键词：
Beyond Notability Re evaluating Women

项目摘要

'It's hard to be what you can't see.' Marian Wright Edelman's observation captures the importance of diversity and representation in social, intellectual and political life. This project seeks to address this challenge in one field: women's work in British archaeology, history and heritage in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although academic research and citizen-science initiatives have begun to address this agenda, and figures such as Amelia Edwards and Gertrude Bell have entered the popular imagination, obstacles remain to evaluating the full extent of women's historical contributions to British cultural life. Political disenfranchisement, gendered social roles, and dependent economic status combined to place women in informal, ancillary positions in museums and other cultural institutions. Their work is often overlooked in contemporary sources and their networks difficult to reconstruct, obscured by married names and non-professional status. Archives offer a key to unlock the work of women and other non-elite historical actors, creating a fuller and more inclusive understanding of the past. Yet many significant national and regional institutional archives remain inaccessible. Few have been catalogued or digitised. Even where physical access is possible, inherited conventions of naming and data organisation render women hard to identify, their activities difficult to reconstruct.This project brings together academic researchers with expertise in intellectual and social history, information science and digital humanities in partnership with the Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) in order to recover the broad landscape of women's work in archaeology, history, and heritage and their intellectual networks in 19th and 20th-century Britain via detailed investigation of two significant cultural-institutional archives. We will take as our basis the extensive archival holdings of the SAL (founded 1707), and the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI, founded 1844), housed together at the SAL headquarters in Burlington House, Piccadilly. We will conduct the first ever comprehensive analysis of these institutions' archival holdings for the period 1870 to the 1950s: a time of great social, political and cultural change in Britain which was marked by women's entry into various fields of British public life. Building upon approaches in recent information science, we will develop a framework for cataloguing the archives so as to highlight and render discoverable the rich evidence of women's historical activities that they contain. We will also trace these women's activities beyond the SAL and RAI archives, using Linked Open Data to connect them to other institutions and heritage sites in the UK and beyond. On the basis of this analysis we will write a new history of archaeology, history, and heritage in 19th- and 20th-century Britain, which will reveal the extent of women's contributions to the shaping, practice and institutionalisation of these fields. With the SAL's assistance we will develop partnerships with other institutions that emerge, through our research, as significantly connected to the women whose histories we uncover, in order to enrich interpretations of regional and local museums, heritage sites and other cultural institutions across the UK. We anticipate interest in the project findings from cultural and heritage institutions, local and national media, and academic and public history researchers.Team members will produce a research monograph and articles, a unique research dataset published under open-license in a project website, conference papers, a programme of interactive public engagement events and digital creative materials that can be adapted and reused to enrich education and outreach in museums and heritage institutions.

“成为你看不到的人是很困难的。”玛丽安·赖特·埃德尔曼的观察抓住了社会、知识和政治生活中多样性和代表性的重要性。该项目旨在解决一个领域的这一挑战：19 世纪和 20 世纪女性在英国考古、历史和遗产领域的工作。尽管学术研究和公民科学倡议已经开始关注这一议程，并且阿米莉亚·爱德华兹和格特鲁德·贝尔等人物已经进入大众的想象，但评估女性对英国文化生活的历史贡献的全面程度仍然存在障碍。政治权利被剥夺、性别化的社会角色和依赖的经济地位结合在一起，使妇女在博物馆和其他文化机构中处于非正式的辅助职位。他们的工作经常在当代资料中被忽视，他们的网络也难以重建，并被已婚的名字和非专业身份所掩盖。档案提供了一把钥匙，可以解开女性和其他非精英历史行为者的工作，从而对过去产生更全面、更具包容性的理解。然而，许多重要的国家和地区机构档案仍然无法访问。很少有被编目或数字化的。即使在可以实际访问的地方，继承的命名和数据组织惯例也使女性难以识别，她们的活动难以重建。该项目与该协会合作，汇集了知识和社会史、信息科学和数字人文领域专业知识的学术研究人员伦敦古物博物馆 (SAL) 的目的是通过对两个重要的文化机构档案的详细调查，恢复 19 世纪和 20 世纪英国女性在考古、历史和遗产领域工作的广阔前景及其知识网络。我们将以 SAL（成立于 1707 年）和皇家考古研究所（RAI，成立于 1844 年）的大量档案为基础，这些档案均位于皮卡迪利伯灵顿宫的 SAL 总部。我们将对这些机构在 1870 至 1950 年代期间持有的档案进行首次全面分析：这是英国社会、政治和文化发生巨大变革的时期，其标志是妇女进入英国公共生活的各个领域。基于最新信息科学的方法，我们将开发一个对档案进行编目的框架，以突出并提供其中包含的妇女历史活动的丰富证据。我们还将追踪这些妇女在 SAL 和 RAI 档案之外的活动，使用链接开放数据将她们与英国及其他地区的其他机构和遗产地连接起来。在此分析的基础上，我们将撰写一部关于 19 世纪和 20 世纪英国考古学、历史和遗产的新史，它将揭示女性对这些领域的塑造、实践和制度化的贡献程度。在 SAL 的帮助下，我们将与通过我们的研究而出现的其他机构建立伙伴关系，这些机构与我们发现的女性历史密切相关，以丰富对英国各地的地区和地方博物馆、遗产地和其他文化机构的解释。我们预计文化和遗产机构、地方和国家媒体以及学术和公共历史研究人员会对项目结果感兴趣。团队成员将撰写研究专着和文章，以及在项目网站、会议上以开放许可方式发布的独特研究数据集论文、互动式公众参与活动计划和数字创意材料，可以进行调整和重复使用，以丰富博物馆和遗产机构的教育和外展活动。