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Susie White - Curator
Susie White is an archaeologist specialising in the study of clay tobacco pipes with a particular interest in the clay tobacco pipe industry of the 17th and 18th centuries in Yorkshire. Since successfully completing her PhD in 2003 she has been working as a specialist finds consultant recording and analysing clay tobacco pipe assemblages from sites across Yorkshire as well as sites from other parts of the UK. She was responsible for the implementation of the recording system employed by the NPA, which conforms to Museum Documentation Association Standards. She has worked as site registrar and senior field officer on excavations in England, the Isle of Man, Egypt and Oman. In more recent years she has been responsible for the illustration of objects for the Portable Antiquities Scheme as well as preparing archaeological reports and illustrations for publication. She has given papers on pipes at conferences in UK, Europe and North American as well as teaching classes on recording techniques for clay pipes and archaeological illustration. Dr. White is currently also the Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme covering North East Wales. Recent publications 2016 (with D. A. Higgins), ‘The Clay Tobacco Pipes’ in C. J. Webster et al, Taunton Castle, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Taunton, 132-140 (360pp). 2016, ‘Thomas Bare - Journeyman Pipemaker and Convict’, Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter, 90, 31-37. 2016, ‘News from the National Pipe Archive, Liverpool’ Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter, 89, 55. 2015 ‘Clay Tobacco Pipes’ in P. Andrews Riverside Exchange, Sheffield: Investigation on the site of the Town Mill, Cutlers' Wheel, Marshall's Steelworks and the Naylor Vickers Works, Wessex Archaeology, 20-30 (81). 2014 ‘Nineteenth-century smoking in Australia: A "disagreeable" fashion’ Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter 86, 31. 2012 ‘Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Pipemakers in York’Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter, 81, 2-12. 2011 ‘Presentation pipes, with particular reference to the Queen Alexandra pipe’ Journal of the Académie Internationale de la Pipe,4, 97-112. 2010 Clarke, E.A., Didsbury, P., Slowiskowski, A. M. and White, S.D., ‘Clay Objects’ in C Harding, E. Marlow-Mann and S. Wrathmell ‘Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds, XII. The Post-Medieval Farm and Vicarage Sites’ York University Archaeological Publications, 14, 211-212. Davey, P.J. and White S.D. 2010 ‘The Clay Tobacco Pipes from Wharram Percy’ in C Harding, E. Marlow-Mann and S. Wrathmell ‘Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds, XII. The Post-Medieval Farm and Vicarage Sites’ York University Archaeological Publications,14, 212-238. 2009 ‘The Early Seventeenth-century Depiction of a Smoking Man, from Dunstable, Bedfordshire’ Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter, 76, 41-42. 2008 ‘The Case of Richard Field: Pipe Maker and Murderer’ Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter, 74, 16-17. 2007 ‘Tonpfeifen als Mordwaffe’ Knasterkopf, 19, 152. 2006 Archive Report ‘A Group of Tobacco Pipes and Hair Curlers from Pontefract’ prepared for Wakefield Museums and Art Galleries. 2005 ‘References to Clay Tobacco Pipes in the Old Bailey Records’Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter 68, 16-23. 2004 The dynamics of regionalisation and trade: Yorkshire clay tobacco pipes c1600-1800 D. A. Higgins, and P. Davey,(eds.), British Archaeological Reports, XVIII, (British Series No. 374), Oxford, 567 pp. 2004 ‘A Group of Clay Tobacco Pipes from Idfa, Upper Egypt’Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter, 65, 16-21. 2004 ‘A Pipe from Sohag, Upper Egypt’ Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter, 65, 21. Editorial roles Editor of the Newsletter and Journal of the Society for Clay Pipe Research. Technical Editor of the Journal of L’Académie Internationale de la Pipe. Other roles Administrator for the Académie Internationale de la Pipe. Other academic interests Social and economic history with particular reference to clay tobacco pipes. Egyptian Ceramics. |
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