PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Publications
Mills, Ralph (2018). 'A chimney-piece in Plumtree-court, Holborn': Plaster of Paris "Images" and Nineteenth Century Working-Class Material Culture. In Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects. Kingstone, Helen and Lister, Kate (Eds). London: Routledge, pp 99-121. | PAGE 1 |
Mills, Ralph (2016). Everyday Magic: Some Mysteries of the Mantelpiece. In Public History Review Vol 23, pp 74-88. | PAGE 1 |
Mills, Ralph (2015). Material Culture in Miniature: The Historical Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Miniature Objects, in Brooks, Alasdair (Ed) The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century. University of Nebraska Press. | PAGE 1 |
Mills, Ralph (2015). The Prosaic Platter, In Brown, Steve, Clarke, Anne and Frederick, Ursula (Eds), Object Stories: Artefacts and Archaeologists. Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press. pp 139-146. | PAGE 1 |
Mills, Ralph (2014). A flint tool/Pawprint/Two railroad spikes/Ceramic doll arm. In Lost and Found. Manchester: MIRIAD, pp 38-41. | MORE |
Presentations
November 2017:
Italian Image-sellers, Plaster of Paris and Working-class Mantelpieces.
At The International Conference on the Image, Venice, Italy.May 2017:
Images of Taste: The nineteenth-century working-class mantelpiece - plaster parrots, Napoleons and Venuses de Milo.
At The working class at home symposium. London: Geffreye Museum, London.March 2016:
Cats, Parrots and Napoleons: The Global Materiality of the Nineteenth Century Working-Class Mantelpiece.
All Things Victorian conference, University of Portsmouth.February 2016:
"Buy my him-a-ges:" the importance of figurinai, wandering Italian "image-sellers," around the nineteenth-century world.
Cross-National Elements of the Nineteenth Century conference, University of Wolverhampton.November 2015:
"Very fine, very cheap, very pretty!" The three-dimensional materiality of nineteenth century "images".
The Association of Art Historians Image Matters conference, Manchester School of Art/Manchester Metropolitan University.May 2015:
A Little Vertical Archaeology.
The Strata Conference: University of Birmingham, Centre for the Study of Cultural Modernity.April 2015:
A chimney-piece in Plumtree-court, Holborn.
Victorian Paraphernalia Conference, The Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies and the Northern Nineteenth-Century Network. Leeds Trinity University.September-October 2014:
Excavation (with Prof Steve Dixon); excavation and installation.
International Ceramics Biennial, Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent.May 2014:
Material Memories and Spirit of Place in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Mapping Cultures conference, Coimbra, Portugal.January 2014:
Some Mysteries of the Mantelpiece.Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Quebec.
October 2013:
Interim exhibition, The Paper Gallery, Manchester.
June 2013:
Saudade, In search of material memories.
Design for Desertification conference, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal.Mischief on the mantelpiece?
The Performative Mischief symposium, Loughborough University.Bad Things on the Mantelpiece?
The Good Things and Bad Things conference, Nottingham Contemporary.November 2012:
£0.99 Archaeology: Small Things Considered
The Contemporary History and Archaeology in Theory conference, York.
Last updated: 1st February 2018