Restoration Trust trustee Frances Halahan ACR has produced a list of online conservation resources that meet her high standards! No flannel, no dodgy techniques, no overblown claims. Mostly not for DIY, except for managing moth top tips from English Heritage.
Tate website www.tate.org.uk
Audrey and Her goats – Tate Conservation
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/audrey-and-her-goats-tate-conservation
Time-based Media Conservation
The Artist Rooms
https://www.tate.org.uk/artist-rooms has a Learning resource section with information on a number of artists. Some of the info includes video which are quite interesting and also suggestions of things to do. It is generally free of artspeak and, in some cases, discusses the artist’s mental health.
https://www.tate.org.uk/artist-rooms/learning
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-bourgeois-2351/art-louise-bourgeois
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-ruscha-1882/ed-ruscha-and-art-everyday
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jeff-koons-2368/jeff-koons-banality-decadence-and-easyfun
V&A Conservation Stories
https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/conservation#conservation-stories
Short films about particular conservation projects. They include miniatures, paintings, textiles, sculpture, well done and should be something of interest.
National Gallery
Behind the scenes of the framing department
Making green tempera versus oil
Making six huge frames for Titian’s mythological paintings
Art restoration of one of our largest paintings: Relining Van Dyck’s ‘Charles I’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J48dp4HPTCE&feature=emb_rel_end
National Maritime Museum
Conserving the H3 Timekeeper parts 1 -5
Getty Conservation Institute
https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/video.html
Kasbah Taourirt: Conserving Earthen Heritage in Morocco
Project Videos (20 videos)
Modern & Contemporary Art (31 videos)
English Heritage
Wrest Park Stores – not a video but interesting pictures etc.
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/conservation/
Painting conservation in general
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/conservation/paintings-conservation/
A day in the life of Audley End House and Gardens
Uncovering Paintings and maps at Eltham Palace
https://artsandculture.google.com/u/0/asset/eltham-palace-map-room/twE7sS2PCjd99w
Preserving graffiti on walls
J.W. Evans, Silver Factory, Birmingham
Not conservation but how silver was made and the production of dies and stamps interesting for anyone interested in how things were made.
https://artsandculture.google.com/u/0/asset/j-w-evans-silver-factory-birmingham/6gF3wBh7XlXJNA
Conservation behind the scenes at Rievaulx Abbey
Spring cleaning the guns at Pendennis Castle
Conservation: Bringing the Light Back to Brodsworth Hall
Understanding clothes moths
How to protect against clothes moths
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/conservation/clothes-moth-research/
British Museum
Exploring the Mayan world. New technology to learn about Mayan architecture etc
Hands on with Sutton Hoo
Not conservation, but interesting talk about a sword and what you can learn
National Archives
The National Archives webinars and podcasts are a bit dry – mainly for someone with a specific interest
https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/webinar-people-fear-victorian-workhouse/
Asylum History
This short list of published sources and web links are all connected to the history of asylums. The books are available from libraries, and the web links on line. Please add to them if you can.
Books
Barbara Taylor’s book has a useful select bibliography.
Roy Porter, A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane (London, 1987)
Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times (London, 2014).
David Clark, The Story of a Mental Hospital: Fulbourn,1858-1983 (London, 1996)
Wise, Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England (London, 2012)
Mark Davis, Marina Kidd, Voices from the Asylum, West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2013)
First hand accounts of asylum life in twentieth century Britain, from the Mental Health Testimony Archive in the British Library Sound Archive.
St Luke’s Hospital Wikipedia entry
Conservation
The Institute of Conservation has some useful leaflets about caring for heritage collections, including archives.