Endeavouring Banks: exploring collections from the Endeavour voyage 1768–1771
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 10 - 1265370
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1016/j.jhg.2016.09.003
- Publisher
- Paul Holberton Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781907372902
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Centre for Travel Writing Studies
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Endeavouring Banks is the result of a major HLF-funded project started in 2014. Extensive research at repositories including the British Museum, the British Library and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, ensured that reproductions and photography of uniquely valuable material would be made visible, allowing researched analysis of the provenance and interpretation of each featured object. Multidisciplinary in character, this 130,000-word volume brings together otherwise dispersed collections of natural history, ethnography, bibliography, cartography, art, sculpture, instrumentation and archives to explore the act of collecting during the voyage with the aim to promote public understanding of its epoch-making results.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This volume was compiled to accompany the exhibition ‘Joseph Banks, A Great Endeavour - a Lincolnshire Gentleman and his Legacy’, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and held at The Collection (Lincolnshire’s art and archaeology museum) from February-May 2014. After a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, the volume features essays on documents and other artefacts connected to the Endeavour voyage written by researchers at cultural sector organizations as well as universities, including the British Library, the University of Oxford, University of Iceland, and University of New South Wales, Sydney. In addition to authoring a c.11,000-word essay, Chambers conceived the volume, commissioned content by all contributors, and prepared the scholarly apparatus. He also authored the Introduction (c.5,000 words) and additional contextual and analytical sections (‘The Voyage: Aims and Organization’, ‘The Atlantic Stage’, ‘The Society Islands’, ‘New Zealand’, ‘The East Coast of Australia’, ‘Homeward Bound’, and ‘Aftermath’). Chambers’ total contribution is c.73,500 words. Endeavouring Banks was nominated for the prestigious William MB Berger Prize for British Art History in 2017.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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