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January 2011: Journal of the month...
Each month we feature a key journal, lifting restrictions on content to make it freely available to all, and providing additional insights into the team behind the journal, its history, and its content. This month...
Journal of Conflict Archaeology
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The best research in the fast-growing subject of
• Now publishing 3 issues per year • Complete archive available online The Journal of Conflict Archaeology (JCA) was set up in 2005 by current editors Tony Pollard and Iain Banks, and is new to Maney in 2011. The first issue is due in February 2011, which sees the journal move from an annual volume to three issues per year. It continues to be edited from the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Glasgow.
The Centre for Battlefield Archaeology: an international centre of excellence The Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Glasgow was established in April 2006. Drawing experience from GUARD and the Department of Archaeology, the Centre is the first facility of its kind and has earned a reputation as an international centre of excellence for the burgeoning study of the archaeology of battlefields and other archaeological manifestations of human conflict. Members of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology include some of the most experienced conflict archaeologists in the UK and, as an internationally respected team, provide a highly efficient service capable of meeting the needs of curators, planners and other clients in tackling field surveys, excavations and desk-based assessments related to the heritage management of the battlefields or any other aspect of conflict archaeology, at home or abroad. The Centre has carried out a number of high profile projects on battlefields and related sites of conflict at home and abroad. It also offers the first MLitt/PgDip in Battlefield and Conflict Archaeology which is now in its fifth year.
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The One Show's Dan Snow learns more about conflict archaeology JCA Editor, Tony Pollard, takes The One Show's Dan Snow on a tour of two iconic Scottish battlefields of the '45 Jacobite Rebellion: Prestonpans, 1745, and Culloden, 1746. Remembering Fromelles January 2010 saw the reburial of 250 British and Australian troops who died at the Battle of Fromelles, and whose bodies had previously remained undiscovered. In 2008 Tony Pollard directed the programmes of survey and evaluation which would bring to light the mass graves on the edge of Pheasant Wood near Fromelles, where it is believed the Germans buried the dead in pits. A new cemetery near the original burial site, built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, saw the reburial of all the soldiers with full military honours. Tony Pollard attended the first ceremony: "When I first laid eyes on these men in the ground I became very determined that they should see a burial such as this," he said.
The Battle of Fromelles occurred in France on July 19-20, 1916, during World War I. The action was intended partly as a diversion from the Battle of the Somme, and was a combined operation between British troops and the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). After a night and a day of fighting, 1,500 British and 5,533 Australian soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. The Australian War Memorial describes the battle as "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history." The Lost WWI Bunker 10 Nov 2008 Channel 4 |
From 1 January to 15 February 2011 we are lifting all access restrictions on three years of Journal of Conflict Archaeology content to make it available to you completely free of charge. You don't need to register, fill out any forms or even leave your name — simply click through to the IngentaConnect website Journal of the Month special offer! 15% discount on 2011 subscriptions for individuals and institutions.
Articles free to download include: • Platforms of Reconciliation? Issues in the Management of Battlefield Heritage in the Republic of Ireland • Rituals of Rebellion: Cultural Narratives and Metadiscourse of Violent Conflict in Iron Age and Medieval Denmark • Memory and Memorial: A Study of Official and Military Commemoration of the Dead, and Family and Community Memory in Essex and East London • An Archaeological Study of Talamanca Battlefield • Remembering the Charge of the Light Brigade: Its Commemoration, War Memorials and Memory • Landscapes of the Battle of the Bulge: WW2 Field Fortifications in the Ardennes Forests of Belgium • Between Memory and Materiality: An Archaeological Approach to Studying the Nazi Concentration Camps • Geographic Information Science as a Method of Integrating History and Archaeology for Battlefield Interpretation • For Duty Done: A WWI Military Medallion Recovered from the Mass Grave Site at Fromelles, Northern France • Kosovo: Cultural Heritage in Conflict |
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Meet the Editors |
Sign up for Table of Contents alerts Ensure you don't miss out on the first issue of the journal published by Maney in February 2011. Sign up to receive an email alert when each new issue is published. First issue Table of Contents. The Journal of Conflict Archaeology is devoted to battlefield and military archaeology and other spheres of conflict archaeology, covering all periods with a worldwide scope. Additional fields of interest include the archaeology of industrial and popular protest, contested landscapes and monuments, nationalism and colonialism, class conflict, the origins of conflict, forensic applications in war zones, and human rights cases. Visit the journal homepage for Instructions for Authors, to subscribe online, to download a library recommendation form, and more... |
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Dr Tony Pollard is the Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. He has carried out battlefield and conflict related archaeological projects in the UK, mainland Europe, Africa and South America. His interests range from 18th-century warfare, particularly in relation to the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland, to the archaeology of the First and Second World Wars. On behalf of the Australian Army he directed the programmes of survey and evaluation which brought to light the WWI mass graves of Australian and British troops at Fromelles in France. Other recent projects directed by Tony include the excavation of a First World War dug out near Ypres, the first archaeological project to be carried out within the town of Fort William, and a community based investigation of the site on the Battle of Prestonpans. Tony has written widely for both popular and academic audiences. |
Dr Iain Banks is Executive Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology and was formerly the Director of Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD). He has worked on battlefield projects across the UK, Europe and Africa, both as a geophysicist and excavator. He was the project manager for the Fromelles survey and evaluation leading to the discovery of the graves and of a First World War dugout near Ypres. He managed and was a key contributor to the Inventory of Scottish Battlefields, having worked on battlefields throughout Scottish history. He plays an active part in the teaching of the MLitt in Battlefield and Conflict Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. His main interests in the subject are the Prehistory and Anthropology of Warfare and Warfare in the Twentieth Century, particularly the First and Second World Wars. |
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