A research project investigating the history of the antiques trade in Britain in the 19th & 20th centuries
There has been a groundswell of support from the trade itself following the article about the project in the Antiques Trade Gazettte – with more support coming in daily – thanks indeed, so far, to Guy Apter, John Bly, Robin Butler, Geoffrey Godden, Edgar Harden, Dominic Jellinek, Christopher Payne, Andrew Whittaker, and Mark Dodgson at BADA
Thank You!
We had a really productive project team meeting at the Royal Festival Hall in London yesterday. Very productive (and mind-bending) discussion about data-sets and ‘authority terms’ re the forthcoming interactive website for the project. Sparky also amused us all with his ‘Lovejoy’ question….
Here’s the project team – left-to-right: Lizzy Jamieson (Research Fellow, University of Leeds); Mark Wales (smallhadroncollider.com) the software programmer for the interactive website, and Lovejoy fan; Me (Mark Westgarth, Principal Investigator, University of Leeds); Tim Banks (University of Leeds, PVAC Faculty IT Manager); Eleanor Quince (Co-Investigator, University of Southampton).
We’ve made front page news in the Antiques Trade Gazette; we’ve had loads of responses to the project, so thank you to Mark and Ivan at the ATG!
You can read the full story on the ATG website: http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/
We are finding some fabulous published resources for the Antique Dealer project – much of which is very kindly being sent into the project by the trade itself!…here’s some fantastic early 20th century dealer catalogues from Phillips of Hitchin –
thank you Jerome Phillips!
The Antique Trade is certainly changing – the Thames Valley Antique Dealers’ Association (TVADA) is to disband by the end of this year – so the Antiques Trade Gazette reports, see:
http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/
More reason for the history of the antique trade to be captured and archived!
Welcome to the Antique Dealers AHRC project blog – we’ve set up the blog to allow anyone, anywhere, to follow and to contribute to the research project, so do sent us a note to antiquedealers@leeds.ac.uk for an invitation to post a blog entry!
Mark, Eleanor and Lizzy (Project Team)
Invoice from Adams, Antique Dealer, Edinburgh and New York, 1907
a working group dedicated to the display of art in the private interior, c. 1715-1914
An International Conference hosted by The Bowes Museum and The University of Leeds
A research project investigating the history of the antiques trade in Britain in the 19th & 20th centuries
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A research project investigating the history of the antiques trade in Britain in the 19th & 20th centuries
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