Cassie Newland is a British archaeologist, public historian and academic. She is Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage and Director of the Cultural Heritage Institute at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) in Swindon. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Public History at Bath Spa University and Research Associate at King's College London. She regularly appears on historical and science broadcast media as a resident expert, including Time Team, Time Crashers, and Coast.[1][2]

Dr
Cassie Newland
Dr Cassie Newland
Occupation(s)Historian, Public historian, Archaeologist, Academic
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineHistorical Archaeology
InstitutionsCultural Heritage Institute (RAU)

Education and interests

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Cassie Newland completed her master's in historical archaeology and PhD in archaeology in at the University of Bristol. Her research specialisms include nineteenth century technological colonialism, slavery and the Atlantic world, and industrial and contemporary archaeology.[1] Her other historical interests include mobile phones, telegraphy, wireless and radar.[3]

In 2016, Newland was curator for the exhibition Victorians Decoded: Art & Telegraphy at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.[1] It included a manifestation of The Great Automatic Grammatizator, a fictional machine invited by author Roald Dahl.[4]

Broadcast

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Newland has been a presenter and contributor on a variety of television and radio programmes. She has received awards for the public presentation of science.[1]

Years Title Platform
2006 - 2013 Time Team Channel 4
2006 - Coast BBC Two
2010 A History of the World BBC South West
2010 - 2012 Nick Knowles' Original Features[5] UKTV
2012 Urban Secrets Sky Atlantic
2012 - 2013 Wittgenstein's Jet BBC Radio 3
2012 - 2013 New Archaeologies BBC Radio 3
2013 The Genius of Invention BBC Two
2013 The Great War Begins[6] BBC and The Open University
2015 Time Crashers Channel 4
2017 Impossible Engineering UKTV, Yesterday
2019 Impossible Railways UKTV, Yesterday
2020 Ancient Engineering Sky Atlantic, Discovery
Ongoing The One Show BBC One

Selected works

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Articles

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  • Bailey, G, Newland, C, Nilsson, A and Schofield, J (2009). 'Transit, transition: excavating J641 VUJ.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 19 (1). pp. 1–28.
  • Schofield, J, Newland, C, Bailey, G and Nilsson, A (2009). 'Sic transit gloria mundi.' British Archaeology, 92. pp. 16–21.

Chapters

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  • Newland, C (2020) 'Economic objects.' In: White, C.L, ed. A cultural history of objects: in the age of industry - volume 5. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 57–76.
  • Newland, C (2016) Sections on 'Chatterton's Compound', 'Gutta percha', 'Telegraphic Copper', 'The Marine Galvanometer', 'Sir Charles Wheatstone's Notes', '1866: The Year Communication Changed Forever'. In: Arscott, C., & Pettit, C. ed Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy. London: The Courtauld Institute of Art & King’s College London.
  • Newland, C (2012) 'Mr Hopgood's Shed: an archaeology of Bishop’s Cannings wireless station’ in Beyond the Dead Horizon: Studies in 20th-Century Conflict Archaeology, Nicholas Saunders (ed.).  British Archaeological Reports.  Archaeopress, Oxford.
  • Newland, C (2009) 'Marconi's first transatlantic wireless transmission.' In: Schofield, J, ed. Defining moments: dramatic archaeologies of the twentieth-century. Archaeopress (BAR), Oxford, pp. 9–18.

Excavations

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  • 2009. Turbo Island: an archaeology of Homelessness. Public archaeology project run as drop-in site for students and public alike. Part of a larger English Heritage funded project exploring the archaeology of contemporary homelessness.
  • 2006. The Van Project. The now infamous excavation of a 1991 Ford Transit van. Successful experimental exercise into the archaeology of vehicles.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Dr Cassandra Newland". Bath Spa. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Coast: Cassie Newland". BBC. Archived from the original on 24 March 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Cassie Newland". The Conversation. 21 September 2016. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Roald Dahl machine brought to life at Guildhall exhibition". Journalism.co.uk. 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Nick Knowles' Original Features Series 1 – 3". Dcdrights.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  6. ^ "The Great War Begins". Open.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
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