{"id":1014,"date":"2014-07-13T19:34:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T19:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2014-07-13T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T19:34:45","slug":"vm_365-day-14-history-from-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 14 History from things"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1015\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/VM-14.jpg\" alt=\"Artefacts of conflict, display of weapons from World War One, Ellington Park Ramsgate\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artefacts of conflict, display of weapons from World War One, Ellington Park, Ramsgate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our image today is of a display of World War One weapons and equipment at a day of commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of the war, held at Ellington Park, Ramsgate.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeology is all about using material remains\u00a0 to understand cultures and societies of the past, including the recent past. By collecting and curating examples of the objects that contributed to major periods of history, the\u00a0 scale of the events and the technologies involved become easier to appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>From model trains to classic cars, curated collections are a form of archaeological research, creating ordered series of objects to demonstrate the form, function and change over time of objects that have been significant to the development of our ways of life.<\/p>\n<p>In this centenary of such a momentous event in the lives of so many Europeans, the curation and display of objects associated with World War One provide a way to demonstrate &#8216;history from things&#8217;, which is really a form of archaeology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our image today is of a display of World War One weapons and equipment at a day of commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of the war, held at Ellington Park, Ramsgate. Archaeology is all about using material remains\u00a0 to understand cultures and societies of the past, including the recent past. By collecting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1014\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 14 History from things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-education","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}