Articles and papers

Use the links below to download documents about the research and conservation of the ss Great Britain.

Papers

• Visualising Voices: collecting and animating memories of ss Great Britain’s salvage
• Text of a paper presented at The Oral History Society Conference at the Victoria & Albert Museum, July 2010

The ss Great Britain Conservation Plan

• The conservation plan, volume 1, part 1 (9.72mb)
• The conservation plan, volume 1, part 2 (9.77mb)
• The conservation plan, volume 1, part 3 (8.67mb)
• The conservation plan, volume 2, part 1 (3.31mb)(8.67mb)
• The conservation plan, volume 2, part 2 (2.47mb

Policies

• The collections management policy (64kb)
• The conservation policy (62kb)

Useful resources

• Conservation of the ss Great Britain
• Article from the Icon Magazine.
• ss Great Britain: teamwork as a platform for innovative conservation 
• (Watkinson et al). Article from The Conservator Magazine.
• Dessicated storage of chloride-contaminated archaeological iron objects 
•  (Watkinson and Lewis, 2005)
• Dessicated storage of chloride-contaminated iron 
•  (Watkinson and Lewis, 2008)
• Dessicated storage of chloride-contaminated iron 
•  (Watkinson and Lewis, 2009)
• The role of bFeOOH in the corrosion of archaeological iron 
•  (Watkinson and Lewis)
• ss Great Britain iron hull: modelling corrosion to define storage relative humidity 
•  (Watkinson and Lewis)
• ss Great Britan conservation synergy and cost
•  (Watkinson and Lewis)