John Blair’s working papers on 14th-century brasses and monuments

John Blair's full size rubbings of 14th-century brasses and indents in England and Austria in a large format portfolio, including English counties (by county in alphabetical order, and places within counties in alphabetical order); Scotland, France, Portugal (one item each); and Austria (including a probably complete collection of rubbings of incised slabs in Vienna)
Noyon Cathedral rubbing: rubbing of the previously unknown composite Flemish brass in the vestry of Noyon Cathedral near Paris made by John Blair, Robin Emmerson and Philip Lankester, 1976 (1 large roll).
Six lever arch files containing John Blair's main series of report forms, drawings, notes and other material relating to English pre-1350 brasses and indents, c.1970-1990 arranged as follows: I: Bedfordshire to Devon; II: Dorset to Herefordshire; III: Hertfordshire to Kent; IV: Lancashire to Norfolk; V: Northamptonshire to Staffordshire; VI: Suffolk to Wales.
Ten card files as follows: Material supplementary to the catalogue in the lever arch files; additional material on English pre-1350 brasses, compiled since c.1987; material relating to the marblers in London and Corfe; file of notes on medieval monuments in Lincolnshire; file of notes on early monuments at Pleshey, Essex; file of notes on 14th-century monuments at Gorleston, Suffolk; file of notes on medieval grave-slabs in Surrey; 'With Hearts in their Hands': draft of unpublished book on heart-monuments in medieval England by M. Paszkiewicz; file of notes on medieval brasses and incised slabs in Austria.

John Blair graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1976, and subsequently remained at the college as a research student and Junior Research Fellow. In 1981 he was appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship at Queen's College. His research has focused on medieval social, economic and cultural history; material culture and technology; buildings and domestic environments, and popular belief and religion. He also has a strong interest in practical archaeology.
His publications include 'Early Medieval Surrey' in 1991; 'The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society' in 2005; and 'Building Anglo Saxon England' in 2018. In 2013 he gave the Ford Lectures in British History on 'Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape'.
Professor Blair retired in October 2020 and was elected to an Emeritus Fellowship.

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The archive was gifted to the Borthwick in August 2020.

John Blair graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1976, and subsequently remained at the college as a research student and Junior Research Fellow. In 1981 he was appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship at Queen's College. His research has focused on medieval social, economic and cultural history; material culture and technology; buildings and domestic environments, and popular belief and religion. He also has a strong interest in practical archaeology.
His publications include 'Early Medieval Surrey' in 1991; 'The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society' in 2005; and 'Building Anglo Saxon England' in 2018. In 2013 he gave the Ford Lectures in British History on 'Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape'.
Professor Blair retired in October 2020 and was elected to an Emeritus Fellowship.

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Created by S.A. Shearn, 07/01/2021

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