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1. Latest issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation, Volume 48, Issue 3, October 2025, a special issue on 'Conservation and Care' is now available online 2. The Tin Pest Challenge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.From: Jonathan Kemp Posted: Sunday November 2, 2025 6:34 AM Subject: Latest issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation, Volume 48, Issue 3, October 2025, a special issue on 'Conservation and Care' is now available online Message: We are pleased to present the latest issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 48, 3, October 2025, an extra large Special Issue titled 'Conservation and Care'. https://www.icon.org.uk/resources/journal-of-the-institute-of-conservation.html <https://www.icon.org.uk/resources/journal-of-the-institute-of-conservation.html> We would like to thank all contributors throughout the process of bringing the issue to publication, from the 45 author groups who submitted a proposal through to the authors of final curated selection presented here. We look forward to working with everyone in the future. As Editor of the Journal my heartfelt thanks go to Guest Editor Hlia Maral for her vision and enduring intellectual contribution that shaped this special issue. The Special Issue contains the following contents: Preface Jonathan Kemp Pages: 169-169 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2566540 Guest Editorial Hlia Maral Pages: 170-174 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2566541 Research Articles: Attunement as an embodied methodology for conservation practices | Open Access Brian Castriota Pages: 175-191 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2547339 Caring through decline: palliative and bereavement care for unstable plastics | Open Access Jessica Walthew, Martha Singer & Sarah Barack Pages: 192-205 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2547343 Do we care, or simply measure? Reflections on preventive conservation through the idea of care Natalija osi & David Cohen Pages: 206-220 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2547340 It was like that when we found it: dissociation and standards of care for archaeological and ethnographic collections | Open Access Ayesha Fuentes Pages: 221-233 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2548426 How technology cares | Open Access Annet Dekker Pages: 234-243 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2547341 The affective turn and the management of conservation within the museum | Open Access Pip Laurenson Pages: 244-255 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2547671 From the objective to the pluriversal: reconfiguring care in museum theory | Open Access Marina Valle Noronha Pages: 256-268 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2561257 Caring for Trayvon Martin's garments with reverence and tenderness Laura Mina & Candace Oubre Pages: 269-278 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2550651 Conservation as caring with: reflections on relational conservation with the Memory Group of Trafaria Rita Canhoto, Rita Macedo & Joana Lia Ferreira Pages: 279-292 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2550659 Collaborative cultural recovery as relational care Nina Owczarek & Stephanie E. Hornbeck Pages: 293-311 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2549992 Visualising care: representing decision models for conservation | Open Access Jane Henderson & Ashley Lingle Pages: 312-326 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2551185 Interview: Expressive conservation: acts of defiance and subversion Mandy McIntosh & Stephanie de Roemer Pages: 327-337 | DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2025.2554039 Enjoy! Dr Jonathan Kemp FIIC Editor, Journal of the Institute of Conservation https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcon20/current <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcon20/current> 2.From: Barry Knight Posted: Sunday November 2, 2025 11:29 AM Subject: The Tin Pest Challenge Message: All metals conservators have heard of tin pest: it is the transformation of metallic β-tin to grey powdery α-tin. This change only happens below 13.2°C, but is accelerated at lower temperatures. It is frequently mentioned in textbooks as a threat to museum objects made of tin, but verified cases are very rare, or indeed unknown. IT IS NOT TRUE that the tin buttons on Napoleonic soldiers' uniforms disintegrated due to tin pest during the retreat from Moscow in 1812. IT IS NOT TRUE that tin sarcophagi of the Austrian imperial family in Vienna were damaged by tin pest. IT IS NOT TRUE that Captain Scott's fuel cans leaked due to tin pest attacking the solder joints, during his expedition to the South Pole in 1912. To resolve the question of whether tin pest really occurs on museum objects, I am offering a prize of £100 to anybody who can produce an example of an object from a museum or similar heritage collection that has been attacked by tin pest. Because tin pest cannot be distinguished by eye from normal tin corrosion, any claim must be accompanied by an identification of α-tin by X-ray diffraction. Send your claims to me, Dr Barry Knight, [email protected] <[email protected]> I would be delighted to present the prize at the next Metals conference in 2028! ------------------------------ Barry Knight Conservation Scientist St Albans UK ------------------------------ You are subscribed to "Global Conservation Forum (ConsDistList)" as [email protected]. To change your subscriptions, go to http://community.culturalheritage.org/preferences?section=Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to https://community.culturalheritage.org/HigherLogic/eGroups/Unsubscribe.aspx?UserKey=d16eaa87-0f69-494b-9f2f-303dbc1222e1&sKey=fab9aa4f27a04c5d876e&GroupKey=757a8f16-505f-4323-8e74-e376757aa9f7.
