Revenants and Remains Dale Townshend
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This podcast explores the cult of architectural ruin in Britain. It is one of the outputs of a project entitled ‘Exploring Britain’s Ruins: Revenants and Remains at Five Northern English Religious Houses’, a programme of public engagement that is run by Dale Townshend at Manchester Metropolitan University and Michael Carter and Dominque Bouchard, both of English Heritage, and which has been generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. For more information, please see our website at https://revenantsandremains.mmu.ac.uk/ or follow us on Twitter at @rev_and_rem or on Instagram @revenantsandremains. Podcast directed by Dale Townshend and produced by Evan Wilson and Markus Hetheier. Sound art by Gary Fisher.
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Conserving Britain’s Ruins, 1700 to the Present Day
Marion Harney, Professor in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering at the University of Bath, presents her work on the Conservation Britain’s Ruins, 1700 to the Present Day.
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The Haunting of Britain’s Ruins
In this episode, Dr Hamish Mathison and Professor Angela Wright, both of the University of Sheffield, present their work on the Haunting of Britain's Ruins in the Romantic period.
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Writing the Ruined Abbeys of Netley, Tintern and Melrose
Jim Watt, Professor in English and Related Literature at the University of York; Dale Townshend, Professor of Gothic Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University; and Nicola J. Watson, Professor of English Literature at the Open University, present their co-written- and produced work on 'Writing the Ruined Abbeys of Netley, Tintern and Melrose'.
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Exploring Britain’s Ruins
Dr Emma McEvoy, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, presents her work on Exploring Britain’s Ruins in the long eighteenth century.
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The Aesthetics of Ruin
Dale Townshend, Professor of Gothic Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, talks about the Aesthetics of Ruin in the long eighteenth century.
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Antiquaries and Ruins
Rosemay Sweet, Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester, presents her podcast on Antiquaries and Ruins.