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German Spy Museum Berlin - IMG_5618.JPG
Photograph from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy museumNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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German Spy Museum Berlin - IMG_5608.JPG
Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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German Spy Museum Berlin - IMG_5607.JPG
Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy Museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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German Spy Museum Berlin - IMG_5597.JPG
Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy museumNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Berlin, Cold War, German Spy museum , and Berlin Wall
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Field work images - 28 Group Observed Dundee May 2022
Photographs(s) from fieldwork undertaken at museums and other Cold War heritage sites in Scotland and beyond as part of the ‘Materialising the Cold War’ research project.Gledhill, Jim
building restoration project, UKWMO Caledonian Sector HQ bunker, Royal Observer Corps’ 28 (Dundee) Group, photographs, and fieldwork
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Readiness for Red Alert: Engaging with the Royal Observer Corps Material Culture
The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) were a uniformed civilian organisation tasked with preparing for nuclear disaster and would have stepped up to maintain control of Britain had an attack happened during the Cold War. Although stood down in 1991, the legacy of the ROC lives on through the remaining underground...Harper, Sarah
Royal Observer Corps, aviation , exhibitions , museums, Cold War , and material culture
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The Vulcan’s Voice: multiple meanings of a Cold War artefact
On 12 April 1984, a massive delta-winged nuclear bomber landed at an airfield in south-east Scotland. Vulcan XM597 was not on a routine journey, but its final flight; for East Fortune was not an active airport, but rather housed an aviation museum, the aircraft’s destination. This moment of transfer was...Alberti, S J M M
Cold War, exhibitions, museums, aviation, and material culture
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Through the Looking Glass War: Museums and exposing Cold War espionage in contemporary Berlin
Gledhill, Jim
material culture , Cold War , museums, exhibitions, and espionage
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What Colour was the Cold War?
In interviews with museum professionals about museology I asked each participant if they associated any colour with the Cold War. I intended to use colour as a lens on curatorial perceptions, as well as preconceptions, of an historical era. By leading with associations, rather than empirical data, all interviewees had...Douthwaite, Jessica
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Cable, Link Analyser, Synthesiser: Connecting the Cold War in the Museum
In his book Grammophone, Film, Typewriter, the cultural theorist Friedrich Kittler linked the history of writing and imaging machines to the history of warfare. For him, the computer is fundamentally and essentially a machine that structures the production of knowledge in the Cold War. Kittler’s existentialist analysis, however, is based...Nehring, Holger
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