Cassie Newland

Cassie Newland is a British archaeologist, public historian and academic. She is Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage and Director of the Cultural Heritage Institute at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) in Swindon. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Public History at Bath Spa University and Research Associate at King's College London. She regularly appears on historical and science broadcast media as a resident expert, including Time Team, Time Crashers, and Coast.

Education and interests Cassie Newland completed her master's in historical archaeology and PhD in archaeology in at the University of Bristol. Her research specialisms include nineteenth century technological colonialism, slavery and the Atlantic world, and industrial and contemporary archaeology.

In 2016, Newland was curator for the exhibition Victorians Decoded: Art & Telegraphy at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

Broadcast

Newland has been a presenter and contributor on a variety of television and radio programmes. She has received awards for the public presentation of science. UKTV 2012 Urban Secrets Sky Atlantic 2012–2013 Wittgenstein's Jet BBC Radio 3 2012–2013 New Archaeologies BBC Radio 3 2013 The Genius of Invention BBC Two 2013 The Great War Begins BBC and The Open University 2015 Time Crashers Channel 4 2017 Impossible Engineering UKTV, Yesterday 2019 Impossible Railways UKTV, Yesterday 2020 Ancient Engineering Sky Atlantic, Discovery Ongoing The One Show BBC One

Selected works

Articles

Bailey, G, Newland, C, Nilsson, A and Schofield, J (2009). 'Transit, transition: excavating J641 VUJ.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 19 (1). pp. 1–28. Schofield, J, Newland, C, Bailey, G and Nilsson, A (2009). 'Sic transit gloria mundi.' British Archaeology, 92. pp. 16–21.

Chapters

Newland, C (2020) 'Economic objects.' In: White, C.L, ed. A cultural history of objects: in the age of industry - volume 5. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 57–76. Newland, C (2016) Sections on 'Chatterton's Compound', 'Gutta percha', 'Telegraphic Copper', 'The Marine Galvanometer', 'Sir Charles Wheatstone's Notes', '1866: The Year Communication Changed Forever'. In: Arscott, C., & Pettit, C. ed Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy. London: The Courtauld Institute of Art & King’s College London. Newland, C (2012) 'Mr Hopgood's Shed: an archaeology of Bishop’s Cannings wireless station’ in Beyond the Dead Horizon: Studies in 20th-Century Conflict Archaeology, Nicholas Saunders (ed.). British Archaeological Reports. Archaeopress, Oxford. Newland, C (2009) 'Marconi's first transatlantic wireless transmission.' In: Schofield, J, ed. Defining moments: dramatic archaeologies of the twentieth-century. Archaeopress (BAR), Oxford, pp. 9–18.

Excavations

2009. Turbo Island: an archaeology of Homelessness. Public archaeology project run as drop-in site for students and public alike. Part of a larger English Heritage funded project exploring the archaeology of contemporary homelessness. 2006. The Van Project. The now infamous excavation of a 1991 Ford Transit van. Successful experimental exercise into the archaeology of vehicles.