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Briefing Note: Transport Industry Climate Change Adaptation Training Needs
Full text linkWe are beginning to feel the impact of climate change despite action being taken to mitigate climate change through net-zero and low carbon initiatives. In the UK climate change is causing more frequent and more extreme weather events. These adverse conditions are affecting the reliability and safety of our transport systems and can have significant costs. We can improve the resilience (resistance, robustness, reliability or recovery) of our transport infrastructure to extreme weather through taking action to adapt to climate change by modifying and improving transport systems. Technological innovations and enhancement schemes can be used to adapt infrastructure. However, fundamental to an increase in the transport industry 19s capacity to adapt to climate change is improving the knowledge and skills of its workforce. This project is working to support the development of the transport industry 19s adaptive capacity through education and training. As part of the first phase of work, this research undertook a survey of transport industry professionals to identify the knowledge, skills and training needs of the transport industry. The outputs of this survey will inform the next phases of this project to develop climate change adaptation training materials for transport industry professionals
A Twenty-Year Retrospect on ‘The Mirage of Islamic Art’: Polarising Islamic art, consolidating Persian art
Full text linkThis introductory essay overviews the state of scholarship and controversies in the field of Islamic art, in tandem with the gradual reappraisal of Persian art, from around 2000 to the present. By surveying twenty-year debates concerning the academic and display genre called ‘Islamic art’, as well as the reformulating process of the art historical concept ‘Persian art’, this essay seeks an alternative pathway to put several contentious debates concerning art history in general and Persian art in particular into fruitful discussion
Discovering Mughal painting in Vienna by Josef Strzygowski and his circle: the historiography of the Millionenzimmer
Full text linkThe paper discusses the ‘discovery’ of Mughal painting at Vienna and the pioneering research dedicated to it from the 1920s onwards by Josef Strzygowski and his circle. The focus is on the so-called Millionenzimmer at Schönbrunn Palace which was decorated in the 1760s under Maria Theresa with collages made of cut-up paintings of the Mughal empire. The dialectics of this unique decoration scheme are unravelled which emerges as a destructive and at the same time emphatic appropriation of the ‘other’. An additional interest is provided by the connection to Rembrandt and Schellinks who copied Mughal miniatures for which the prototypes appear in the Millionenzimmer. The conclusion draws a parallel to Mughal artistic appropriations
IGNTP guidelines for XML transcriptions of New Testament manuscripts (version 1.6)
Full text linkGuidelines for XML transcriptions of New Testament manuscripts created by the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP).
Version 1.6 (replacing all earlier versions).
This version of the guidelines matches the development of the Online Transcription Editor created as part of the Workspace for Collaborative Editing
A brief historiography of Parthian art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff
Full text linkThe early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping phases. The first phase, ‘Ordering’, begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s dismissive assessment of Parthian art, at this point known mainly from coins, as derivative and barbaric. The second phase, ‘Exploration’, begins in the mid-nineteenth century with the advent of archaeological excavation in Mesopotamia and the documentation of rock reliefs and architectural remains in Persia by travellers such as Flandin and Coste. The third phase, ‘Grand Narratives’, occurs primarily in the 1930s, when the first major efforts to synthesize Parthian art were undertaken by Arthur Upham Pope, Ernst Herzfeld, Neilson Debevoise and Michael Rostovtzeff. While Pope and Herzfeld treated Parthian art as a nadir between the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires, a view adopted in many subsequent studies, Debevoise and Rostovtzeff considered it to be a vibrant and original phenomenon
West-östlich diplomacy and connoisseurship in the late Habsburg Empire: Baron Albert Eperjesy and his dispersed collection of Persian art
Full text linkThe purpose of this essay is threefold. Firstly, it attempts to introduce the diplomatic and collecting careers of the Austro-Hungarian diplomat Baron Albert Eperjesy (1848–1916), who was the highest representative of his country in numerous European capitals and –between 1895 and 1901– Tehran. Secondly, an attempt will be made to contextualise his collecting habits by drawing attention to the peculiarities of Austro-Hungarian collector diplomats. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the Persian element of this collection will be discussed within the previously outlined framework, namely, what artworks it did include, how and where he obtained them, and what would be their subsequent fate
Low Emission (Clean Air) Zone
Full text linkLow Emission Zones – also known as Clean Air Zones – aim to achieve compliance with legal air quality objectives by discouraging the use of highly polluting vehicles in urban areas. This briefing note examines current knowledge as to whether these initiatives work, gaps in our understanding and lessons for future place-based air quality solutions
Impact of woodburning on air quality
Full text linkWood burning stoves and open fires are an increasingly popular form of heating in the UK. In a small proportion of homes they are the main source of heat, but in many households they are
a supplementary heat source valued for aesthetic appeal. They are also considered by some to be a greener way of heating the home than the use of fossil fuels (e.g. gas or coal) as wood,
when sustainably sourced, can be considered a renewable fuel from a carbon perspective
New Air Quality Targets & Interim Goals for Fine Particulate Matter – PM2.5: Implications for the West Midlands
Full text linkThis document provides a comprehensive overview of the implications of more stringent PM2.5 targets on air quality and public health in the West Midlands. By examining the sources and levels of PM2.5 pollution, exploring potential air quality scenarios and strategies, and estimating the health burden, this document seeks to inform stakeholders and decision makers in their efforts to improve air quality and reduce associated health risks and inequalities
"Unframing" Byzantine ivories: painterliness, reliefs, and the place of Byzantine art in early twentieth-century German scholarship
Full text linkThis paper scrutinises Adolf Goldschmidt and Kurt Weitzmann’s publication on Byzantine ivories to reveal its entanglement with contemporaneous art theories and art historical discourses. It identifies the bedrock of the authors’ observations in Heinrich Wölfflin’s stylistic dialectic and in the critical writings by Adolf von Hildebrand and Aloïs Riegl devoted to the subject of relief. Such contextual and critical approaches to the publication allow for a reconsideration of some of the criticisms addressed to it while further questioning the reliability of its analysis. Nevertheless, the article intends to reappraise the innovativeness of the volume and its importance for the history of the discipline, offering an opportunity to reflect on the early research practices that produced some of Art History’s foundational works
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