Museology and heritage studies

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century.

What does it really mean to reconstruct a city after a natural, biological or man-made disaster?

Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide.

Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices.

This book provides a broad overview of the key concepts in public archaeology, a research field that examines the relationship between archaeology and the public, in both theoretical and practical terms.

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging.

How was the Roman Empire invoked in Brexit Britain and in Donald Trump's United States of America, and to what purpose?

Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present.

How does heritage emerge, change, stagnate, disappear and/or revive over time?

Co-curating the City explores the role of universities in the construction and mobilisation of heritage discourses in urban development and regeneration processes, with a focus on six case study sites: University of Gothenburg (Sweden), UCL East (London), University of Lund (Sweden).

Heritage Conservation and Social Engagement explores different kinds of engagement, participation, access, and creative use of resources motivated by the practice of conservation, and offers ethical and practical perspectives from which to approach cultural heritage projects.

What constitutes a healthy diet?

Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the future is rarely reflected upon.

Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world - or so we are told.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN in 2015 have influenced the actions of international and intergovernmental organisations and governments around the world, and have dictated priorities for international aid spending.

In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value.

Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into ethnographic practice.

The health and vitality gained after changing the diet is so miraculous that gluten-free people want to tell their loved ones all about it in hopes that they too will want to change.

Inflammation inarguably has been identified as the father of all disease.

Chia Power can make you skinny, strong, and healthyThe Aztecs cultivated the world's most nutritious foods, which provided them with the strength to build one of civilization's greatest empires.

Recetas del corazon para el corazon nace en principio de la vivencia de tener un miembro de la familia con la condicion de hipertension.

If you are a male over fifty-five, slightly overweight, out of shape, and hooked on a diet of greasy foods, you are a prime candidate for coronary artery disease, CAD.

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997.

A fitness trainer's true story of gaining 75 pounds so he could better understand his clients' struggles-and what he learned while getting back in shape.