Morning,

Please find attached ‘Snowshill Manor PhD Collaborative Projects’, from Julie. These look like very interesting projects for the right people. Please could you  forward onto your networks or to anybody you think might be interested.

Many thanks

Hellen

 

 

 

Dear Hellen

 

Could you please send out this information to the Gloucestershire Museums Group?

 

With thanks

Julie

 

 

We are pleased to announce two Collaborative Doctoral Awards for Snowshill Manor in Gloucestershire through Reading University and the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.

 

Please cascade or pass on to anyone who may be interested in these opportunities.

 

https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/sww-dtp-collaborative-doctoral-awards-cdas/

 

 

 

SWW DTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs)

 

This year, in addition to the standard studentship competition, the SWW DTP is issuing a call for applications for Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs). Successful students will take up their awards in September 2018 with the SWW DTP.

 

Each CDA will be connected to a specific external partner. Supervision will be carried out by a representative from that organisation and at least two academic supervisors from within the consortium. The lead supervisors are listed as contacts on the projects below.

 

Potential students should contact the academic supervisor listed below in the first instance, with a view to submitting their application as part of the open competition for a SWW DTP studentship, which opens on Monday 27th November 2017 and closes on Thursday 11th January 2018, 11.59pm GMT.

 

Please note that the deadline for expressions of interest to the academic supervisors listed below is 14th December 2017.

 

 

‘Let nothing perish’: Snowshill Manor’s legacies, biographies, and motivations.

 

Charles Paget Wade (1883-1956) was a collector, author, artist-craftsman, and architect. This project would focus on archival evidence, held at Snowshill Manor and the Gloucestershire Archives, with the aim of historically and culturally contextualising Wade. It would draw on a wider range of archives relating to Wade’s early life and family history to interrogate the role that nostalgia, trauma, and legacies of enslavement may have played in the creation of Snowshill Manor. Wade trained as an architect in the Arts and Crafts style and while in military service during WWI came upon an advertisement for Snowshill. He formed a collection there in the Cotswolds which encompassed a complex range of early 20th century interests from Samurai armour, to a model village, and historic costume. Using his family’s sugar plantation fortune, inherited in 1911, he was able to create his own vision before leaving the buildings, archive, garden, and object collection to the National Trust.

 

Primary Academic Contact: Professor Emily West, University of Reading [log in to unmask]

 

Other Academic Contacts: Dr Jeremy Burchardt [log in to unmask] and Dr Ollie Douglas [log in to unmask]

 

National Trust Contact: Dr Rupert Goulding, National Trust Lead Curator, South West Region [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

‘When brain and hand together strive’: Charles Paget Wade (1883-1956) as author and poet

 

Charles Paget Wade (1883-1956) was a collector, architect, and artist-craftsman, but he also wrote a good deal of illustrated memoir-like prose and verse about his life, his collection at Snowshill Manor, and the themes of craft and seasonality. These extensive writings, held at this National Trust Property, have never been studied in depth, edited for publication or analysed in relation to Wade’s cultural grounding in the Arts & Crafts and Aesthetic Movements at the turn of the twentieth-century, or regarding responses to traumatic experience in the Great War, or the concerns of the changing inter-war literary context. During Wade’s lifetime, Snowshill Manor also welcomed a range of influential literary visitors including Edith Sitwell, Virginia Woolf, John Betjeman, John Buchan, Graham Greene, and J. B. Priestley. Though Wade is often portrayed as an isolated eccentric, this project will seek to explore his literary activities in their own right and in relation to the cultural and artistic networks of his wider milieu.

 

Academic Contact: Professor Peter Robinson, University of Reading [log in to unmask]

 

National Trust Contact: Dr Rupert Goulding, National Trust Lead Curator, South West Region [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

 

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