Dr Hilary Orange

Dr Orange is Programme Director for the MA in Public History and Heritage and teaches across a range of modules, including the MA Heritage Work Placement module and the undergraduate module Exploring the Heritage Industry. She is committed to working with external partners to develop hands-on student experience and graduate skills.

Hilary is currently a member of the following research consortiums and groups:

• ICOMOS-UK Committee on Industrial Heritage
• Co-researcher in DePOT (Deindustrialisation and the Politics of our Time) project, funded by the SSHRC of Canada.
• Scientific Research Network on ‘Heritage Practice Communities’, supported by Global Wales top-up funding. The consortium is led by the University of Antwerp with partners located in Uppsala, Aalto, Copenhagen and Helsinki.
• Academic advisor on Dr Ana Marie-Herman’s project Lives of Women Artists: Judy Chicago, funded by a BA/Leverhulme Grant (University of Greenwich).
• Academic advisor on Prof. Peter Oakley’s AHRC-DFG-funded project on Toxic Heritage (Royal College of Art / Deutches Bergbau Museum, Bochum).

Recent publications include:

Miskell, L., Orange, H. and Almond-Brown, G. (2024). ‘Locating Steel in Britain’s Industrial Heritage’, Social History, 49, 4: 510-542 (Gold Open Access). 

Orange, H. (2024) 'Topography, light design, and industrial heritage in the Ruhr region: The night vision of IBA Emscher Park, in Nocturnal Histories of Architecture (Leipzig: Spector Books, 125-132.

Graves-Brown, P. and Orange, H. (2021) ‘Station to station: a field guide to rock music memorials in London’, in J. Schofield & L. Maloney, (eds). Music and Heritage: New Perspectives on Place-making and Sonic Identity (Routledge), 222-232. 

Orange, H. (2020) ‘Uneven Surfaces: Bodily Engagements with the Postindustrial Wild’, in George S. Jaramillo and Juliane Tomann (ed.), Transcending the Nostalgic: Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation (Berghahn), pp. 43-63. ‘Making Sense of History’ book series, volume 42. Open access under a Creative Commons Attribution.

Orange, H. & Graves-Brown, P. (2019). Popular music shrines in London as memory and remembrance. In, S. De Nardi, H. Orange, E., S. High & E. Koskinen-Koivisto, (eds). Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Memory (Routledge), 345-356.

Orange, H. (2019). Cornish mining heritage: images, representations and narratives. In S. Berger, (ed.) Constructing Industrial Pasts: Industrial Heritage Making in Britain, the West and Post-Socialist Countries (Berghahn), 107-127.

Recent highlights include the Margam App, an augmented reality installation that reconstructs the Late Victorian interiors of Margam Castle (funded by the UKSPF) and in partnership with Neath Port Talbot Council and CfP Landscape and Heritage Consultancy. The software allows visitors to Margam Castle to experience its lost Victorian interiors through immersive digital reconstructions, significantly enhancing the way that history is engaged with and understood. The app has transformed passive observation of the building exterior into an engaging and educational experience, and, for the first time in over 50 years, rooms have been unlocked to allow visitor access. The app integrates informative narratives about the castle’s history, allowing users to learn about the lives of people who lived and worked within its walls.

Other awards: 

(CI) PEDALS (Programme for Elevating Digital and Language Skills), funded by the UK Community Renewal Fund. (Jan 2022) £259,609. 

(PI) ‘Lighting the Ruhr. Industrial heritage and light art in the Ruhrgebiet’ Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Fellowship stipend. (Oct 2016).

 ‘Whitehawk Camp Community Archaeology Project.’ Project Manager. National Heritage Lottery Fund. (April 2014). £99,300.

 (PI) ‘Aperture: Land art and landscape archaeology.’ UCL Arts & Humanities funding. £10,000. (Dec 2012). AHRC Cultural Engagement Award, £10,000 (turned down Jan 2013). £10,000.

 (PI) ‘Kojo Moe: Factory photography and tourism in Japan.’ Japan Foundation. (Jan 2013). £500.