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Reframing Magna Carta – Comprehensive Planning and Pragmatic Outcomes

• Paul Garside

  Paul Garside studied chemistry at the University of Southampton, where he remained to carry out research for a PhD investigating the properties of natural polymer fibres, which was awarded in 2002. He subsequently joined the Textile Conservation Centre as Research Fellow in Conservation Science, with a particular interest in plant fibres and weighted silks; he also taught the conservation science component of the Centre’s MA course in textile conservation. In 2009 he joined the British Library as Conservation Scientist.

  , Cordelia Rogerson

  Cordelia Rogerson has been Head of Conservation at the British Library since 2009, leading a team of 40 specialists to care for the library collection of 150 million items. She gained a BA in Art History from Manchester University and trained initially as a textile conservator at the Textile Conservation Centre. Cordelia worked as a practising textile conservator, researcher and lecturer for 10 years, latterly at the University of Southampton whilst employed by the Textile Conservation Centre. She gained a PhD from the Royal College of Art in plastics conservation and initially joined the British Library as modern materials conservator.

  , Gavin Moorhead

  Gavin Moorhead has worked as a conservator for 23 years and acquired extensive experience helping preserve a wide range of cultural heritage. He was trained in book and paper conservation at the State Library of Victoria and worked there for seven years. He spent two years at the Victoria & Albert Museum before finally joining the Conservation Department at the British Library in 2001. His contribution to collection care at the British Library comprises work on early manuscripts, parchment charters and rare books, including some of the world’s most iconic artefacts such as the Codex Sinaiticus and Magna Carta.

  , Kumiko Matsuoka

  Kumiko Matsuoka studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art and Byam Shaw School of Art. After graduation she studied bookbinding and conservation at London College of Printing, and Chemistry and Physics at the Open University (obtaining a BSc and Analytical Chemistry MSc at Birkbeck). She joined the BL’s India Office Library and Records in 1986, moving to the Oriental Collection Conservation Studio in 1990. From 1996 her involvement with exhibitions and loans began, and in 2000 became exhibitions and loans coordinator, as well as studio manager and International Dunhuang Project digitisation project conservation manager. Since 1998 she worked extensively on both Eastern and Western manuscripts and printed books. From 2011 to 2015 she was environmental monitoring manager.

  und Christina Duffy

  Christina Duffy is the British Library’s Imaging Scientist. She graduated with a degree in Physics with Astronomy from Dublin City University in 2007 before achieving a PhD from Imperial College London on Meteoritics and Planetary Science in 2011. She specialises in digital microscopy, multispectral imaging and image processing techniques. Recent major projects have included recovery of faded text from Magna Carta and a CT analysis of the St Cuthbert Gospel binding.