Dave Parham Editor

Venetia Porter is former Senior Curator for Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art at the British Museum. She was the lead curator for the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World, opened 2018, and her publications include Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets at the British Museum (2011) and Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics (2023). Dave Parham is an experienced archaeologist and diver who has directed maritime archaeological projects that range in date from the Bronze Age to the Second World War and in scope from strategic studies to extensive field investigations. He has worked extensively throughout the British Isles as well as the Baltic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. His research interests focus on the archaeology of seafaring and ship construction of all periods but can extend into underwater cultural heritage management on occasions