Three IMPACT case studies in History of Art

1.Ironwork: Dissertation to Dover Castle

2. Pictish Sculpture: Angus and St Antony

3. The St Albans Psalter: from Concealment to California

1999Society of Antiquaries Monograph

Conservation assessments for severalCathedral Inventories

Dover Castle, Spring 2009

EU/English Heritage scheme toRegenerate Dover

Dover Castle doors and interiors APRIL 2009

Time Team Special

IMPACT of ‘The Dover Castle Experience’

• Castle refurb cost £2.5m• Teams of craftsmen trained up in medieval skills• These doors can last 1000 years• Time Team to promote project• Visitor figures to castle up by 40%, with 62,000 in

August 2009. 355,000 visitors, 2010-11• Project accompanied by extensive educational

packages which won the Sandford Award for Heritage Education in 2009

Pictish Sculpture:St Vigean’s Angus and

St Antony of Egypt

St Vigean’s, by Arbroath, Angus

The Museum

Kirkstyle: the museum, 2006

2009

LabelsLightGraphic panelsMulti-media: touch, sight,

soundAccess

Rubbings

Touch screen Computer Catalogue

The CD guide

New Historic Scotland popular introduction to the Picts,by Jill Harden. 2010,based on discoveries at St Vigeans

St Vigeans on the cover again, 2008

St Antony and St Paulshare bread brought by a Raven, in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

9C sculpture at St Vigeans

Living in a cave on Socotra, Christmas 2007

TEMENOS ACADEMY for Spiritual Study Patrons:Dalai LamaArchbishop of CanterburyPrince of Wales

Following St Antony from St Vigeans,Accompanied by beasts from the Aberdeen Bestiary

2011

IMPACT of ST VIGEANS

• Museum won Visit Scotland 5 star award as world class attraction, 2009

• Site previously unstaffed, now 2 custodian/guides and numerous school parties

• Sculpture accessible for all levels: children, disabled, browsers, scholars

• Numerous publication spin-offs: CD, guide, books by other people

• Publications address both academic and spiritual readership.• Dozens of outreach lectures to amenity societies• On its way: major monograph for Society of Antiquaries of

Scotland• Possibility of another museum make-over at Meigle

St Albans Psalter on the web, in English and German

AHRC award 2001-3: £57,500

St Albans PsalterEngland c.1130David directs his musicians

Owned by St Godehard’s parishchurch, Hildesheim, Germany

Christina of Markyateleads her beloved Abbot Geoffrey and his monksto Christ

Life of Christina of Markyate

(1960: note black and whitecover)

Vespers at St Albans Cathedral

The Oxford Team

Routledge, 2005

2005 British Library Schnell und Steiner

On the syllabus, 2007:

• Urbana• Santa Barbara• UCLA• Charleston• Princeton

2008. Facsimile: Muller und SchindlerEnglish, German, Spanish, French

11,000 Euros

Facsimile

The ExhibitionHildesheim, winter 2009

The ConferenceThe published proceedings

Hildesheim Rathaus 2009

The GettyLos Angeles 2012

The FitzwilliamCambridge, 2014

Spin-offs

Your private psalter TV puppet show and book

Extensive use of the psalter illustrationsfor German schooltext books

New edition of Life

IMPACT of St ALBANS PSALTER

• Released English manuscript from German seclusion

• Website allowed readers at all levels to approach and associate with a complex document

• Presentation of the research through books and exhibitions and talks seems to touch a wide range of intellectual, emotional and spiritual needs

• The attention of so many new scholars on this MS is changing the entire interpretation of English Romanesque painting and 12C Feminist scholarship

• Christina goes to Hollywood: The movie??

Strategy for achieving impact• Choose a very rich topic which can be accessed

from many levels • Consider innovative approaches• Don’t be afraid of a lost leader. Nothing is wasted• Develop partnerships with sponsors or identify

vested interests• Develop outreach audience (50 amenity soc. talks

@ 50 people each = 2500 customers)• Allow others to develop your work but aim for

ultimate quality control

Doors have hinges. Find a saint to open the doors

IMPACT STRATEGY