Tim Edensor

The potent urban prehistory of an ancient megalith: the Kempock Stone, Gourock, Scotland

Tim Edensor, Kenneth Brophy

Journal article  |  2023  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES

This paper focuses on the modern biography of a prehistoric stone of uncertain provenance, the megalith known as the Kempock Stone..

Heritage assemblages, maintenance and futures: Stories of entanglement on Hampstead Heath, London

T Edensor

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Historical Geography

This paper investigates a heritage assemblage in which the most prominent elements are an old brick arch and a massive beech tree,..

Learning from Hampstead's Pergola: walking and image-making at a spectacular Edwardian structure

Tim Edensor

Journal article  |  2022  |  LANDSCAPE RESEARCH

This paper focuses on the extraordinary 245-metre-long Pergola on Hampstead Heath, designed by renowned landscape architect Thomas..

The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: Textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities

Tim Edensor

Journal article  |  2022  |  THESIS ELEVEN

In drawing out how human lives are always already inextricably entangled with the non-human elements of the world, this paper expl..

Tourist skills

Ilze Mertena, Maarja Kaaristo, Tim Edensor

Journal article  |  2022  |  ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH

This study extends the theoretical debate on skills as an important element of tourism as a practice. Analysing qualitative data o..

DARK DESIGNS: Creating shadow, gloomy spaces and enchanting light

T Edensor

Book Chapter  |  2022

In this chapter, I discuss how the nocturnal city is subject to regulatory, poor and standardised forms of illumination, as well a..

Landscape, Materiality and Heritage

Tim Edensor

Book  |  2022

Dreamlands: stories of enchantment and excess in a search for lost sensations

Luke Dickens, Tim Edensor

Journal article  |  2021  |  CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES

This paper reflects on the search for a lost, obscure piece of experimental architecture that appeared on the west coast of Scotla..

Enigmatic objects and playful provocations: the mysterious case of Golden Head

Tim Edensor, Meg Mundell

Journal article  |  2021  |  SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

This article explores community responses to ‘Golden Head’, a guerrilla artwork that was installed covertly in a Melbourne park in..

Keeping the family silver: The changing meanings and uses of Manchester's civic plate

Tim Edensor, Becky Sobell

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CULTURE

This article explores the shifting uses and meanings of Manchester civic plate, a huge silver dining service purchased in 1877 to ..