Acknowledgements

The editors would like to express their gratitude to the following people and organisations for their support and contributions to this volume. First, we would like to thank the Department of Archaeology, Durham University for the initial grant of a Research Dialogues Fund and the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham University for contributing funding for the conference that provided the initial impetus for this volume – “Care in the Past: Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”. We would also like to thank the College of St. Hild and St. Bede for allowing us to stage the conference, Sophie Newman for her assistance on the day, and all those individuals who gave talks: Jessica Cooney, Heidi Dawson, Katherine Huntley, Bryn James, Gary King, Mary Lewis, Dawn McLaren, Irina Metzler, Hannah Newton, Nick Thorpe, Veronique Thouroude, and Marlo Willows. Secondly, thanks are given to Emma-Jayne Graham and Julie Peacock for giving talks as part of the Care in the Past Research Dialogues talks given at the Department of Archaeology, Durham University. Thirdly, we would like to thank the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) and the University of Liverpool for allowing our participation in their annual conference, and those who contributed to our session “Disability and Archaeology: Critical Perspectives and Inclusive Practices”: Victoria Beauchamp, Emma-Jayne Graham, Shawn Phillips, Dario Scarpati, Nicola Thorpe, Lisa Trentin, Johannes Verstraete, Julie Walker, and Stephanie Wright. Finally, we would like to thank Julie Gardner at Oxbow, Charlotte Roberts, the chapter authors, and all those individuals who assisted in the production of the volume: Patricia Baker, David Bolt, Kathy Dettwyler, Mandy Jay, Andrew Millard, Piers Mitchell, Rebecca Redfern, Sarah Semple, Nivien Speith, Nathan Thomas, Tim Thompson, Beth Upex, and Mark White.