Following the success of our book ‘Managing Change in Museums & Galleries’ (below), with Hilary McGowan we are now writing a new book. Cultural Leadership: a Practical Guide to Leading a Sustainable and Inclusive Organisation, is due for publication in early 2025 by Routledge. The book will be in a similar format as the Change book. It will cover a range of topics which cultural leaders face, including practical advice on how to develop an organisation which is sustainable, inclusive and diverse, in addition to developing yourself and managing responses to topical challenges. We are using specialists with a range of backgrounds and life experiences to give us the widest diversity of perspectives.
Managing Change in Museums and Galleries: A Practical Guide (with Hilary McGowan)
Routledge, 2021
A practical guide to all the challenges likely to be encountered during organisational change and how to deal with them, whether as a leader, a member of staff, or a volunteer
Where Airy Voices Lead: A Short History of Immortality
O Books, 2020
A global history of humankind’s search for immortality, from the ancient Near East to the present
Our Museum: What happened next? A review and further learning two years on
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, 2018
Review of organisations that took part in the Our Museum programme two years after its close, sharing further learning about embedding participatory practice in museums and galleries
No Longer Us and Them: How to change into a participatory museum and gallery – learning from the Our Museum programme
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, 2016
Report on how to embed community participation, from lessons learned through the Our Museum programme
Umm al-Biyara: Excavations by Crystal-M. Bennett in Petra 1960-1965
Oxbow Books, 2011
Final publication of excavations at the Iron Age site of Umm al-Biyara, the highest mountain in Petra, Jordan
Studies on Iron Age Moab and Neighbouring Areas in Honour of Michèle Daviau
Peeters, 2009
Edited volume of essays on the archaeology of central Jordan
Crossing the Rift: Resources, Routes, Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah (with Katharina Galor)
Oxbow Books, 2006
Edited volume of essays on the archaeology and history of the Wadi Arabah, which forms the modern political border between Jordan and Israel from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea
Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard (with Elizabeth Slater and Christopher Mee)
JSOTS Supplementary Series, 2005
Edited volume of essays on the broad topic of writing and ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean society
Busayra: Excavations by Crystal-M. Bennett 1971-1980
Oxford University Press, 2002
Final publication of excavations at Busayra, the largest Iron Age site in southern Jordan and the major city of the ancient kingdom of Edom
The Archaeology of Jordan (with Burton MacDonald and Russell Adams)
Sheffield Academic Press, 2001
Introduction to the archaeology of Jordan, with chapters on each period written by leading experts
The British Museum Dictionary of the Ancient Near East (with Alan Millard)
British Museum Press/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 (Japanese edition 2002)
Over 500 entries covering Mesopotamia, the Levant, Iran, Anatolia and Arabia from earliest times to the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE
Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan (with Crystal Bennett)
Oxford University Press, 1995
Final publication of excavations at the Iron Age site of Tawilan in southern Jordan
Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum (with Angela Tooley)
HMSO, 1995
Introduction to the antiquities of ancient Egypt, illustrated from the extensive collections of Liverpool Museum
Early Edom and Moab: The Beginning of the Iron Age in Southern Jordan
Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 7, 1992
Edited volume of essays on the archaeological, textual and literary sources for the period between the thirteenth and seventh centuries BCE in ancient Edom and Moab
Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan
Alan Sutton, 1991, reprinted 1996
Illustrated introduction to the art and antiquities of Jordan, from the Neolithic period to twentieth-century folk costume and jewellery
Cypriot Pottery in the Liverpool Museum (with S.C. Tsielepi)
Liverpool Museum Occasional Papers No. 2, 1988
List of all the Cypriot pottery in Liverpool Museum, from Neolithic to Medieval, arranged in chronological order
Egyptian Antiquities in the Liverpool Museum I (with Edmund Southworth)
Aris & Phillips, 1986
Detailed list of more than 4000 provenanced objects from 81 sites, arranged alphabetically by site
