Old Ways New Roads: Travels in Scotland 1720-1830
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-12836
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Birlinn
- ISBN
- 9781780276670
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2021
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- The output was intended to accompany and complement an exhibition of the same name staged by The Hunterian and originally scheduled to open in August 2020. This was delayed by Covid-19 and converted instead to online format (launched March 2021), with consequent delay in turn for the output which was published end of January 2021. For evidence of this delay, we hold a letter from Managing Director of the publishing company confirming this delay.
- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Jointly-authored Introduction (with A. Dulau and N. Leask), plus sole-authored Section 1 (‘The Theatre of War’); sole-authored Section 3 (‘Custom and Improvement’), and jointly-authored Section 4 (50%), ‘Picturesque Prospects and Literary Landscapes’) in J. Bonehill, A. Dulau and N. Leask (eds), Old Ways, New Roads, book, Birlinn Press, 2021
This output has its origins in a shared concern of Bonehill and co-editor Professor Nigel Leask to develop greater cross-disciplinary perspectives on the eighteenth century, and new understanding of travel and topography in Scotland and the wider world at that time. A key purpose was to create a publication to accompany, but also provide greater depth of interpretation for, the Old Ways, New Roads exhibition (see Covid-delay above).
The output ‘updates’ and revises the only comparable publication, The Discovery of Scotland (National Gallery of Scotland exhibition, 1978), now some forty years old. At the same time, it takes a deliberately earlier chronological focus and addresses a far more eclectic range of material, much of it illustrated/quoted and discussed for the first time. Its strongly cross-disciplinary focus is also a new departure, and arises from Bonehill’s and Leask’s research methodologies in other topographically-related work (see below). Bonehill was primarily responsible for the selection and interpretation of the visual material.
The main arguments and thematic structure of the book and exhibition, set out in the jointly authored introduction, were developed by Bonehill in consultation with Leask, with input from The Hunterian (Anne Dulau) for exhibition-related aspects. Bonehill’s sole-author chapters build in part on his previous work on the Sandbys in Scotland (RA exhibition and publication, 2009; Oxford Art Journal article, 2017), and on the roles of drawing in Joseph Banks’ travels (Journal of Historical Geography, 2014.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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