Tim Schadla-Hall

Tim Schadla-Hall FSA
Schadla-Hall in 2010
Born	Richard Timothy Schadla-Hall 24 September 1947
Died	9 January 2023(2023-01-09) (aged 75)
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeologist
Sub-discipline	Public archaeology archaeology of Britain museology
Institutions	Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Richard Timothy Schadla-Hall, FSA (24 September 1947 – 9 January 2023) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of how the archaeological discipline interacts with the public. He was affiliated with the Institute of Archaeology at University College London in Bloomsbury, central London, where he worked as a Reader in Public Archaeology.

Life and career

Schadla-Hall was born on 24 September 1947.[1][2][3][4] In 1971, Schadla-Hall gained his BA in archaeology from the University of Cambridge, before attaining his MA there in 1974.[5] His first book, Tom Sheppard: Hull's Great Collector, was published in 1989.

From 1985 to 1997, Schadla-Hall and Paul Mellars co-directed an excavation of the Mesolithic settlement site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire; it had previously been excavated by Grahame Clark in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[6]

Schadla-Hall was editor of the journal Public Archaeology [7] and a trustee of the veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered, which conducts an annual excavation on the site of the Battle of Waterloo with veterans and serving personnel.[8][9][10]

On 1 January 1990, Schadla-Hall was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).[11]

Schadla-Hall died on 9 January 2023, at the age of 75.[12][13]

Bibliography

Books

Title	Year	Publisher	Other
Tom Sheppard: Hull's Great Collector	1989
Art Treasures and War	1998		Co-written with Wojciech W. Kowalski
Public Archaeology	2004		An edited volume, with Nick Merriman

References

1. "Tim SCHADLA-HALL - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
2. "Richard Timothy SCHADLA-HALL - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
3. "Richard Timothy SCHADLA-HALL - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
4. "Richard Timothy SCHADLA-HALL - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
5. "Iris View Profile".
6. Fagan, Brian (2001). Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. p. 166. ISBN 0-8133-3602-3.
7. Maney Publishing: Public Archaeology (Accessed December 2011)
8. "Tim Schadla-Hall | Waterloo Uncovered". Retrieved 27 April 2022.
9. UCL (11 March 2020). "Award for Waterloo Uncovered charity founded by Institute alumni". Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
10. "WATERLOO UNCOVERED filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
11. "Fellows Directory: Mr Richard Schadla-Hall". Society of Antiquaries of London. Archived from the original on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
12. UCL Institute of Archaeology [@UCLarchaeology] (10 January 2023). "It is with a heavy heart that we must relay the very sad news that Tim Schadla-Hall passed away yesterday. Tim was one of the Institute's larger than life characters & a much-loved member of our community for more than two decades. Our thoughts are with his family & friends." (Tweet). Retrieved 2 February 2023 – via Twitter.
13. "Richard Timothy Schadla-Hall death notice". The Times. 28 January 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

External links

• Schadla-Hall's staff page at UCL
• Waterloo Uncovered