Cassie Newland
Cassie Newland is a British archaeologist, public historian and academic. She is Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Public History at Bath Spa University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol. She was previously Research Associate at King's College London. She regularly appears on historical and science broadcast media as a resident expert, including Time Team, Time Crashers, and Coast. Education and interests. Cassie Newland completed her Masters in Historical Archaeology and PhD in Archaeology in at the University of Bristol. Her research specialisms include nineteenth century technological colonialism, slavery and the Atlantic world, and industrial  and contemporary archaeology. Her other historical interests include mobile phones, telegraphy, wireless and radar. In 2016, Newland was curator for the exhibition "Victorians Decoded: Art & Telegraphy" at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. It included a manifestation of The Great Automatic Grammatizator, a fictional machine invited by author Roald Dahl. Broadcast. Newland has been a presenter and contributor on a variety of television and radio programmes. She has received awards for the public presentation of science.