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Barbara Wills - Honorary Lecturer

Barbara Wills

Name: Barbara Wills

Honorary Title: Honorary Lecturer 

Email: barbara.wills@ucl.ac.ukbwills@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

IoA staff nominator’s name and email address: 

Renata Peters  m.peters@ucl.ac.uk 

 

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IoA involvement:  

Barbara presents on a regular basis to the ARCL121 Conservation Processes course (Lecture 1: Plants, baskets and the ancient Egyptians:  Lecture 2: Deterioration and Conservation of basketry) and also lecture on the Conservation Care of Human remains for the MA Principles of Conservation course. In the coming year, Barbara will co-supervise a thesis for a MA student on the subject of the conservation of mummified human remains. Other present and past links include; participating in a Repair Café, as well as in meetings, conferences and publications (e.g. contributing to a chapter on the conservation care of human remains for the Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology, edited by Alice Stevenson; and Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives). 

Publications

Selected recent publications

  • Forthcoming B Wills. Conservation and the care of human remains in museums. In:  The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology, Oxford University Press. 
  • 2021 forthcoming Wills, B. et al. Conserving, analysing and studying the ‘Hay Cookbook’: Revelations from ancient ‘magical’ texts on leather. Proceedings of the 17th International Seminar on the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts, University of Copenhagen. 
  • 2018 Friedman, R., Antoine, D., Talamo, S., Reimer, P., Taylor, J., Wills, B. and Mannino, N. Natural mummies from Predynastic Egypt reveal the world's earliest figural tattoos, Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol 92 April 2018, pp116-125. 
  • 2015 Wills, B and Antoine, D. Developing a passive approach to the conservation of naturally mummified human remains from the Fourth Cataract region of the Nile Valley. In: British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume no 9, pp 49-56. 
  • 2014. Wills, B., Ward, C., and Sáiz Gómez, V., with contributions by Korenburg C. and Phippard J. Chapter 6: Conservation of Human Remains from Archaeological Contexts. In: Regarding the Dead: Human Remains in the British Museum. Alexandra Fletcher and Daniel Antoine (Eds.), British Museum Press, London, pp 50 – 73