Dr Helen Wickstead MCIfA FHEA FSA

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Helen Wickstead MCIfA FHEA FSA
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About

Helen is an archaeologist and museum historian who unearths the histories of neglected, discarded, and "dirty" artefacts. She was educated at University College London where she completed a PhD on Bronze Age ruins. She has excavated sunken boats, prehistoric megaliths, Sudanese pyramids, Bohemian ritual enclosures, and modern rubbish tips.

Helen's latest work is a study of the British Museum's Secretum. Her previous publications investigated men-only clubs and museums, concrete megaliths, the Cult of Kata, goat-boy mythology in London suburbia, and the lost art of photographing Eoliths. She wrote the world's first dedicated study of Soho Bibles, uncovering how obscene books were smuggled into the British Museum's Library by renegade curators. Her current research reveals the secret worlds of phallus collectors and is soon to be published by Reaktion Books.

Helen lives in outermost London. When not writing she prefers to be in the back room of a museum store or in the deepest trench on the dig.   

Academic responsibilities

Senior Lecturer and Course Director

Qualifications

  • M.A. Archaeology, University College London
  • PhD. Archaeology, University College London
  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Archaeologists

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

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Number of items: 39.

Article

(2024) Photography and Culture, ISSN (print) 1751-4517 (Epub Ahead of Print)

and Knowles, Pete (2022) Museum History Journal, ISSN (print) 1936-9816 (Epub Ahead of Print)

(2022) Extinction Rebellion 'Writers Rebel',

(2022) The Archaeologist, 115, pp. 23-25. ISSN (print) 1368-9169

(2021) Society of Antiquaries London,

(2020) Museum Archaeologists News, 64, pp. 6-9. ISSN (print) 0959-4272

[Reviewer] (2020) European Journal of Archaeology, 23(2), pp. 321-325. ISSN (print) 1461-9571

(2020) Porn Studies, 7(2), pp. 187-211. ISSN (print) 2326-8743

(2018) Photography and Culture, 11(3), pp. 351-366. ISSN (print) 1751-4517

(2017) Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 27(1)(4), pp. 1-18. ISSN (print) 1062-4740

and Barber, Martyn (2015) Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(1), pp. 195-216. ISSN (print) 2051-3429

and Barber, Martyn (2015) London Archaeologist, 14(3), pp. 73-78. ISSN (print) 0024-5984

Carey, Chris J., , Juleff, Gill, Anderson, Jens and Barber, Martyn (2014) Journal of Archaeological Science, 49, pp. 383-397. ISSN (print) 0305-4403

and Barber, Martyn (2012) Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 22(1), pp. 71-88. ISSN (print) 0959-7743

Barber, Martyn and (2010) London Journal, 35(3), pp. 236-254. ISSN (print) 0305-8034

and Barber, Martyn (2010) Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 131, pp. 103-112. ISSN (print) 0070-7112

Barber, Martyn and (2009) Research News : newsletter of the English Heritage Research Department(13), pp. 29-30. ISSN (print) 1750-2446

(2009) Journal of Social Archaeology, 9(2), pp. 249-271.

, Carey, Chris, Bayer, Olaf and Barber, Martyn (2009) PAST(61), pp. 9-12. ISSN (print) 0965-1381

, Carey, Chris, Bayer, Olaf and Barber, Martyn (2009) CBA Wessex News(Spring), pp. 17-19. ISSN (print) 1475-5130

Fyfe, Ralph, Bruck, Joanna, Johnston, Robert, Lewis, Helen, Roland, T. P. and (2008) Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(8), pp. 2250-2261. ISSN (print) 0305-4403

(2008) British Archaeology(101), pp. 44-49. ISSN (print) 1357-4442

Bruck, Joanna, Johnston, Robert and (2003) PAST(45), ISSN (print) 0965-1381

(1996) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 7, pp. 9-12. ISSN (print) 0965-9315

Book

(2008) Oxford, U.K. : Archaeopress. 242p. (British Archaeological Reports, British Series, (BAR 465)) ISBN 9781407303116

Book Section

(2021) In: Zaba, Jarek, (ed.) The museum of today : personal wonders, 2020-2021. Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : Kingston UniversityPress. pp. 8-14. ISBN 9781909362567

(2020) In: Sharples, Niall, (ed.) The economy of a Norse settlement in the Outer Hebrides : excavations at mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist. Oxford, U.K. : Oxbow Books. (Bornais, 4) ISBN 9781789255386 (In Press)

(2020) In: Joseph-Lester, Jaspar, (ed.) Everything is sculpture. Royal College of Art. (In Press)

(2019) In: Gillings, Mark , Haciguzeller, Piraye and Lock, Gary, (eds.) Re-mapping archaeology : critical perspectives, alternative mappings. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 37-72. ISBN 9781138577138

(2013) In: Graves-Brown, Paul , Harrison, Rodney and Piccini, Angela, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of the contemporary world. Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press. pp. 549-564. (Oxford handbooks in archaeology) ISBN 9780199602001

(2008) In: Duff, Leo and Sawdon, Phil, (eds.) Drawing: the purpose. Bristol, U.K. : Intellect Books. pp. 13-27. ISBN 9781841502014

(2008) In: Chadwick, Adrian M., (ed.) Recent Approaches to the Archaeology of Land Allotment. Oxford, U.K. : Archaeopress. (BAR International Series, (BAR S187)) ISBN 9781407303550

(2006) In: Adams, Eileen and Baynes, Ken, (eds.) Professional Practices. London, U.K. : Campaign for Drawing. pp. 12-13. (Power Drawing)

Conference or Workshop Item

(2022) In: Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress 2022; 20-21 May 2022, Held online. (Unpublished)

(2016) In: TAG 2016; 19-21 Dec 2016, Southampton, U.K.. (Unpublished)

(2016) In: Centre for Medical History Seminar Series; 12 May 2016, Exeter, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Exhibition

[Curator], Taylor, Rachel Emily [Curator] and [Curator] (2022) Colouring In : The Past : A Symposium. .

[Contributor] (2011) Manual Setting. , 28th Jan to 11th Feb 2011 , Danielle Arnaud Gallery.

Monograph

and Barber, Martyn (2010) (Manual) Kingston upon Thames : Damerham Archaeology Project. 6 p.

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