HIRC - Publications and Published Works

Interdisciplinary collaboration to understand and recreate the splendour of the Marble Closet at the Little Castle Bolsover

Hughes H (ed.) Layers of Understanding – Setting Standards for Architectural Paint Research,

Proceedings of a one day seminar held on 28th April 2000 organised by English Heritage. Editor Helen Hughes, published by Donhead Publishing Ltd (2002 English Heritage) ISBN 1873394586

Architectural paint research is now recognised as a useful and powerful technique in the analysis and recording of historic buildings… The text is of even greater value because there is little published information on the principles of paint research in buildings. I can thoroughly recommend this excellent book. (SPAB News)

http://www.donhead.com/layers of understanding

Hughes H (ed.) John Fowler –
The Invention of the Country-House Style
Edited by Helen Hughes (Donhead 2005)

The conference proceedings of a one day conference held 4th July 2001 at Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre, New Burlington Place, London.
‘these sparkling papers come as an agreeable surprise and must be amongst the most amusing Post-conference papers ever published’
Ian Gow, ICON News, May 06, p.39

‘Whose blue? The true story behind the sky-blue roof of St Pancras International Station’

Published in Icon News, March 2008, 18-21 Also presented as a poster presentation at ICOM-CC Interim Meeting Rome 23-26 March 2010

‘The potential of architectural paint research in building analysis and conservation’

Architectural Paint Research in Building Conservation. Bregnhoi L., Hughes H., Lindbom J., Olstad T. & Verweij (Eds.), Archtype 2006, ISBN 1-904982-04-2, pp 3 – 9

http://www.archetype.co.uk

‘The Influence of Cesare Brandi on Conservation in the UK’

A paper delivered at a seminar held at the Courtauld Institute, 10th July 2007, one of a series of eight seminars held in different European Countries to mark the centenary of Brandi’s birth. Published in The Centenary of the birth of Cesare Brandi: Cesare Brandi’s thought from theory to practise. (Il Prato editore, 2008, pp. 201-204).

‘Your monument….temple, my castle, my home..’: A Theory for Historic Interiors Research & Conservation’

Delivered at the ICOM-CC 15th Triennial Meeting in New Delhi – Theme: Diversity in Heritage Conservation: Tradition, Innovation and Participation, 22 – 26 September 2008 in New Delhi, India. 15th Triennial Conference Preprints, Vol. II, 1017-1024

‘…with the edge of Goose-Quill feather…’ – A discussion of the problems and potentialities of recreating historic paint systems’

Delivered at Architectural Paint Research in Building Conservation – 3rd International Conference held on January 17-19, 2008, Columbia University in the City of New York. (Archetype 2009)

Interdisciplinary collaboration to understand and recreate the splendour of the Marble Closet at the Little Castle Bolsover

Presented at ICOM-CC Interim Meeting Rome 23-26th 2010 (available on ICOM-CC web-site)

Publications

Hughes H. (2014) ‘Baseline proficiencies for architectural paint research:
Replacing the ‘Goldilocks standard’ in Standards in Architectural Paint Research , Eds. Lisa Nilsen & Kathrin Hinrichs Degerblad (Archtype 20014) ISBN 978-1909492-17-2, pp 3 – 13

Hughes H. (2009) ‘The Research & Conservation of Historic Interiors (Paper 0227V2) ‘
A course paper in ‘Practical Conservation Techniques: Materials and Repairs’ published by The College of Estate Management, The University of Reading, 1-26

Hughes H. & Sitwell C.(2007) ‘Traditional Paint Forum – setting the Scene’
A review of the Traditional Paint Forum’s annual conference, published in ICON News, July 2007, Issue 11, pp. 39 -41

Hughes H. (2007), ‘Sharing Conservation Decisions or Who’s Afraid of Cesare Brandi?
A review of ICCROM’s Sharing Conservation Decisions course held in Rome Oct – November 2006 published in ICON News, March 2007, Issue 9, pp.40-42

Hughes H.(2007) ‘Historic interiors investigation and architectural paint research
the search for long lost hangings, missing paint and Jacobean splendour…’, Research News – Newsletter of the English Heritage Research Department, Number 5, Winter 2006-07, pp23-25

Hughes H. (2006) ‘Danson House: Silent Witness’
A discussion of the fabric based research carried out by English Heritage in an significant eighteenth-century villa. Traditional Paint News, Vol 2, No.2, August 2006

Hughes H. (2006), The Art Deco House
Avant-Garde Houses of the 1920s and 1930s. A Review of a book by Adrian Tinniswood. ICON News. Issue 3, March 2006, pp. 33-34

Hughes H. (2006), Compare and Contrast
Two Historic Interiors Conferences. A review of the Traditional Paint Forum conference and A conference on the Georgian Interior held at the V&A Museum held in Autumn 2005, ICON News, January 2006, Issue 2, pp. 32-33

Hughes H. (2005) ‘The History of the Historic Interiors Section’
2005 ICON News, November 2005, Issue 1

Hughes H. (2006) ‘The Potential of architectural paint research in building analysis and conservation’
Paint Research in Building Conservation , Eds. Bregnhoi L., Hughes H., Lindbom J., Olstad T. & Verweij E. (Archtype 2006) ISBN 1-904982-04-2, pp 3 – 9

Hughes H. (2004) ‘Displaying the Missing Hangings at the Little Castle Bolsover’
a paper delivered at the “Opening up On Display” conference organised jointly by by the Textile and Historic Interiors Sections of UKIC, 2004 29th March 2004 at the Clothworkers’ Hall, London, 29 March 2004 (published in conference proceedings)

Hughes H. (2003) Where Conservation meets Conservation
A review of a one day conference at De Montford University 9th September 2002 Published in UKIC Conservation News July 2002/Issue 83, 25-26

Hughes H (2002) ‘Paint finishes and historic interiors (Paper 0227) ‘
A course paper in ‘Practical Conservation Techniques: Materials and Repairs’ published by The College of Estate Management, The University of Reading, 1-27

Hughes H, (2002) ‘Picnics at the Tower of Babel
A review of the two international conferences which focused on historic interiors, Symposium 2000 – The Conservation of Heritage Interiors 17-20 May 2000, Ottawa Canada and Manifestatie Historisch Interieur 2001′, 10-13 September 2001, Amsterdam, Holland’ . Published in UKIC Conservation News July 2002/Issue 79, 29-30

Hughes H, (2002) ‘Architectural Paint Research’
(extract of article published in Context No.64, December 1999). Country Houses and Collections – An Anthology Edited by Geoffrey Beard for the Attingham Trust, published by Outset Services Ltd

Hughes H, (2000) ‘The use of gold on architectural elements’
in GILDING- Approaches to Treatment, Proceedings of a joint conference of English Heritage and the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation 27-28 September 2000, 33-38

Hughes H (2000) ‘A Jacobean Tragedy – ‘A Tayle of Ignorance and Irreversibility told in Five Actes’
in the Conservation of Heritage Interiors, Preprints of a Conference organised by the Canadian conservation Institute and the Association for Preservation Technology International, 135-143

Hughes H, (1999) ‘Architectural Paint Research – expensive, inconclusive…why bother?’
in Context – Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. No.64, December 1999, 12-14
Hughes H (1999) ‘Architectural Paint Research: Two Twentieth Century Case Studies, The Traditional Paint Forum, Volume 1 No. 4, 12-17

Hughes H, (1997) ‘The Redecoration of the Adam Entrance Hall
12-14,’Wallpaper and Paint’, 42 , ‘English Heritage’s Architectural Paint Research Archive and Database’, 51 in the Traditional Paint Forum Journal Volume 1, No. 3.

Hughes H, (1996) ‘Two Twentieth Century Case studies’
in Post-prints of Conservation and Repair of Twentieth Century Buildings organised by the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, the University of York, 81-83

Hughes H (1995) ‘The Reclamation of Lost Architectural Paint Finishes’
The Traditional Paint Forum Journal, Volume 1, No. 1, 31-32

Hughes H English Heritage’s Archaeological Review
– various articles in editions from 1992-1998

Hughes H (1995), ‘ Layers of History’
Architecture Today, February 1995, 33

Hughes H & Rosomon T (1995) ‘Memories locked in wood’
a review of Painted Wood: History and Conservation, a symposium held at Williamsburg, Virginia, USA 11-14 November 1994, Conservation Bulletin – Science and Technical Review (English Heritage), March 1995

Babington C & Hughes H (1992) ‘The Conservation of the Painted decoration at Brodsworth Hall’,
Conservation Bulletin – Science and Technical Review (English Heritage), 3-6