{"id":567,"date":"2019-09-13T22:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T21:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2020-04-30T11:29:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T10:29:52","slug":"allen-seabys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/allen-seabys\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen Seaby&#8217;s Archaeology for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-570\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-570 \" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Unorganized\/Seaby-detail-for-Curiosi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Unorganized\/Seaby-detail-for-Curiosi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Unorganized\/Seaby-detail-for-Curiosi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Unorganized\/Seaby-detail-for-Curiosi-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Unorganized\/Seaby-detail-for-Curiosi-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from Allen Seaby&#8217;s Japanese style colour wood-block print <em>Bay of Salamis<\/em> (Ure Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><b>Allen Seaby&#8217;s Archaeology for Children<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>13 September 2019 \u2013 21 February 2020<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Allen Seaby was an artist, teacher and writer.\u00a0\u00a0A master of Japanese style wood-block technique, he is best remembered for his prints of the natural world, particularly birds, yet he was also interested in the ancient past.\u00a0\u00a0Through his books he brought this world to life for young people. Through unpublished artworks on loan from the Gillmor family, and archives including an unpublished manuscript in University of Reading\u2019s Department of Typography &amp; Graphic Communication, this exhibition documents Seaby&#8217;s collaborations with Percy and Annie Ure, founders of the Ure Museum.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Related events:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>13 September, 5pm (Ure Museum): Dr Amara Thornton, <i>Dig It! Archaeology for Children in the Past<\/i> (Heritage Open Days)<\/li>\n<li>14 September, 10:30-12:30 (Ure Museum): Children\u2019s activity: Become a publisher! Create your own archaeology book<\/li>\n<li>12 October (Department of Classics): Dr Martin Andrews, Demonstration of Seaby&#8217;s colour wood-block technique<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>This temporary free exhibition is displayed in the <\/b><b>Ure<\/b><b> Museum of Greek Archaeology during its normal opening hours, 9-4:30 T-Th (9-4:30 T-F in term time)<\/b><b> <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Seaby&#8217;s Archaeology for Children 13 September 2019 \u2013 21 February 2020 Allen Seaby was an artist, teacher and writer.\u00a0\u00a0A master of Japanese style wood-block technique, he is best remembered&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#99;&#117;&#114;&#105;&#111;&#115;&#105;&#47;&#97;&#108;&#108;&#101;&#110;&#45;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#98;&#121;&#115;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":570,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-567","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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