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David Higgins - Chairman of the Trustees
He has worked on developing methodologies for the examination and recording of pipes from archaeological assemblages and on techniques for reassembling pipes from large groups. One of his long standing research interests is in the identification of pipemakers’ marks found in England and he is compiling a catalogue of pipe stamps, which already has nearly 32,000 entries in it. Current research interests include the production of specific pipes styles for the colonial export market, including styles that may have been particularly associated with the slave trade, and a study of William Bragge, FSA. Bragge was a prominent nineteenth century businessman and philanthropist who set out to collect and document the ‘pipes of all peoples’. A significant part of his collection ended up in the British Museum, where it includes many of the finest examples of pipes in their ethnographic collections. He has also been studying late-eighteenth and nineteenth century pipe kiln assemblages from Merseyside, Shropshire and Wiltshire. Selected publications since 2017 2021, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes’ [from Fenton Hill and Upper Rawlins], in R. A. Philpott, R. H. Leech, E. L. Morris, et al., Searching for the 17th Century on Nevis: The Survey and Excavation of Two Early Plantation Sites, Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, 224pp. 2021, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes and a Hair Curler’, in David Williams and Rob Poulton, The Medieval and Later Development of Reigate: Excavations in Bell St and High St, 1979-1990, SpoilHeap Publications, Monograph 25, 93-101 (162pp). White, S. D. and Higgins, D. A., 2021, ‘Clay tobacco pipes’ in A. Tuck, and M. Rajic, ‘Hollis Croft, Sheffield, South Yorkshire: Old site and new connections’, Internet Archaeology, 56 (https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.56.4); online at www.intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/4/4.html#43. 2020, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes’, in Steven Teague, Edward Biddulph and Carl Champness, ‘Anglo-Saxon to Post-Medieval Occupation and Evidence for the Medieval Jewry at Nos. 114-119 St Aldate’s and Nos. 4-5 Queen Street’, in Anne Dodd, Stephen Mileson and Leo Webley (eds), The Archaeology of Oxford in the 21st Century, The Oxfordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, Occasional Paper 1, 104-110 (73-125; x + 453pp). 2020, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes’, in Steven Teague, Julian Munby, Andrew Simmonds and Carl Champness, ‘An Early Ditch, Medieval Boundary and Post-Medieval Quarrying at the President’s Garden, St John’s College’, in Anne Dodd, Stephen Mileson and Leo Webley (eds), The Archaeology of Oxford in the 21st Century, The Oxfordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, Occasional Paper 1, 300-314 (273-323; x + 453pp). 2020, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes’, in Steven Teague and Ben M. Ford, ‘Medieval and Post-Medieval Tenements at the Ashmolean Museum Extension Site’, in Anne Dodd, Stephen Mileson and Leo Webley (eds), The Archaeology of Oxford in the 21st Century, The Oxfordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, Occasional Paper 1, 376-382 (325-400; x + 453pp). 2019, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes from Excavations at the Porter’s Lodge, Ludlow Castle, Shropshire’, Journal of the Académie Internationale de la Pipe, 12, 85-94. 2019, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes from Excavations at Oxford Castle’, in J. Munby, A. Norton, D. Poore, A. Dodd, et al., Excavations at Oxford Castle 1999-2009, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 44, Oxford Archaeology, Oxford, 318-328 (483pp). 2018, ‘The Robinson Collection – Clay Tobacco Pipes from Willaston, Cheshire’, Journal of the Académie Internationale de la Pipe, 11, 107-136. 2018 ‘Clay Tobacco Pipe’, in, Dan Garner, Jennifer Lewis and David Freke, Barrow Old Hall and Twiss Green: Investigations of Two Sun-Manorial Estate Centres within the Townships of Bold and Culcheth in the Hundred of Warrington, 1982-87, Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, 85-88 (106pp). White, S. and Higgins, D., 2018, ‘St John’s Street Pipe Kiln: The Clay Tobacco Pipes, in P. Ottaway and K. Qualmann, Winchester’s Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Later Suburbs: Excavations 1971-86, Winchester Museums Service / Historic England Reports, 303-316 (360pp). 2017, Guidelines for the Recovery and Processing of Clay Tobacco Pipes from Archaeological Projects, published online at http://www.pipearchive.co.uk/pdfs/howto/Guidelines%20Ver%201_2%20030917.pdf 2017, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes’ in Ben M. Ford, Kate Brady and Steven Teague, From Bridgehead to Brewery: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Remains from Finzel’s Reach, Bristol, Oxford Archaeology Monograph 27, 194-203 and DVD Section 2.3 (296pp). 2017, ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes and Pipemakers from the Isle of Wight’, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society (Hampshire Studies 2017), 72, 166-218. Editorial roles Editor and joint editor of The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe, Volumes 17 and 18 (2003 and 2004). Editor for the Académie Internationale de la Pipe (2007-2011). Currently joint editor of the Journal of the Society for Clay Pipe Research and the Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter. Other roles Dr Higgins has previously served on various committees, including three years as a council member for the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology; as secretary and treasurer for the North West Region Medieval Pottery Research Group and as a council member for the Medieval Pottery Research Group. From 1994-2002 he was also responsible for compiling an annual bibliography of papers on ceramics for publication in Medieval Ceramics. From 1998-2000 he was a Visiting Fellow in Archaeology at Nene University College, Northampton and since 2004 he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. From 2007-2013 he was an executive board member of the Académie Internationale de la Pipe, a position to which he was re-elected in 2016. He is currently Chairman of the Society for Clay Pipe Research and general secretary of the Académie Internationale de la Pipe. Other academic interests In addition to his work on pipes, he also has a particular interest in historical archaeology and Post-Medieval ceramics.
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David Higgins is an internationally recognised expert in the identification and analysis of clay tobacco pipes, and regularly teaches and lectures on the subject, both in this country and abroad. He prepares specialist reports for many of the large archaeological units as well as government bodies, such as Historic England, and has published more than 350 papers on pipes in local, national and international journals.