Dr

Cassandra Newland

Personal statement

Cassie Newland teaches Heritage and Public History at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

An archaeologist by training but interdisciplinary in habit, Cassie believes firmly in the importance of historians being able to communicate clearly, engagingly and effectively. With her notable experience presenting history programming on TV and radio, Cassie's teaching emphasises the many ways in which we can apply our history skills and knowledges to make a difference to the wider world.

Her research specialisms include, nineteenth-century technological colonialism, slavery and the Atlantic world, industrial archaeology and contemporary archaeology.

Cassie has received awards for the public presentation of science and remains an active contributor to broadcast media.

Academic qualifications

• PhD in Historical Archaeology, University of Bristol
• MA in Historical Archaeology, University of Bristol

Teaching specialism

• Heritage
• Public History
• Landscape History
• Material Culture Studies
• Archaeology
• Slavery and the Atlantic World
• Research design and management

Television and radio

Presenter and/or contributor on Time Crashers (Channel Four, 2015); The One Show (BBC One, ongoing); The Genius of Invention (BBC Two, 2013); Coast (BBC Two, ongoing but currently on hold); Time Team (Channel Four, 2006-13) and Original Features (UKTV, 2010-2012). Urban Secrets (Sky Atlantic, 2012) and A History of the World (BBC South West, 2010); Impossible Engineering (various programmes including Stealth Ships and the Super-sewer TwoFour for Science, Yesterday, Sveriges, RMS Decouverte, Ici Explora, etc. 2017 ongoing); Impossible Railways (TwoFour same channels as above, 2019); Ancient Engineering (Off The Fence for Sky Atlantic, Discovery, etc. 2020); BBC Radio 3 various, including Wittgenstein’s Jet and New Archaeologies (2012-13).