Kate Clark (archaeologist)

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Kate Clark FSA FRGS is a museum director and archaeologist. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2000. [1] Clark was Director of Sydney Living Museums between 2008 and 2013 [2] and the CEO of Cadw from 2014. [3] Before that, she also worked for English Heritage, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Council for British Archaeology, and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum. [4] [5]

Clark and Judith Afrey co-wrote The landscape of industry: patterns of change in the Ironbridge Gorge, a book published in 1993 which studied the landscape of the Ironbridge Gorge to enhance the understanding of its past. It was part of a pattern of landscape studies around this time. [6]

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References

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  2. Power, Julie (30 July 2013). "Historic houses boss takes new role". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
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  4. "Kate Clark | Western Sydney University - Academia.edu". westernsydney.academia.edu. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
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  6. Bendall, Sarah (1994). "Judith Alfrey & Catherine Clark. The landscape of industry: patterns of change in the Ironbridge Gorge. xvi+252 pages, 65 figures. 1993. London & New York (NY): Routledge; ISBN 0-415-03319-5 hardback £45". Antiquity. 68 (260): 684–685. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00047384.