While studying at West Dean, a key and sobering lesson I have learned is that most of the objects you will work on as a book conservator will be brown. Sometimes reddish-brown, sometimes greenish-brown, but still basically brown.
Accordingly, there was cause for celebration when The Royal Jubilee 1935 came across my bench. ...
Recently, I completed work on my MA Thesis which was entitled: A comparative investigation into the off-gassing properties of three brands of EVA and PVAc adhesives currently used in book conservation.
In Part I of this series Mito discusses her MA research on wheat starch paste recipes.
A disaster in a museum or historic house can range in scale from the theft or damage of an individual object to the wholesale destruction of a collection or property by fire or flood. As a Collections Care Assistant for English Heritage, part of my job is to do anything reasonably practicable to try and prevent such an event from occurring and to help mitigate its effects should the worst happen.
Most people know that the metric system was introduced in France, associated with the whirlwind of new legislation and standards that followed the French Revolution. However, it is less obvious why this occurred, and why it occurred in France rather than in England or elsewhere.
So many people were interested in Chanelle's work that we asked for a follow-up. These were the results of her experiments at removing the permanent ink from parchment.
Chanelle Briffa's previous work at the Notarial Archives in Malta on parchment bindings marked about 15 years ago with permanent marker led her to investigate methods of removing the ink and their effect on the parchment.
One of my recent projects is a 19th century French clock signed A.Brocot and Delletrez. I found a description of the mechanism in Chavigny's work on the Brocot family, which revealed that a patent was issued for this mechanism in around 1850 by Antoine Brocot.
The Solar Time Clock is attracting international media and sector attention and is a unique, super complex mechanical clock which can be set for longitude and latitude. No other mechanical clock has ever been made with such a complication. George talks about his path to becoming an independent clockmaker.
The ceramics conservation students were asked to survey a section of the Novium Museum's ceramic artifacts excavated from St Pancras Roman cemetery, near Chichester.
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