Dr Iain Banks
- Senior Lecturer in in History/Battlefield Archaeology (History)
telephone:
01413302420
email:
Iain.Banks@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 406, 10 University Gdns, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707Research interests
Dr Iain Banks is the Executive Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology. He has worked on battlefield projects across the UK, Europe and Africa, both as a geophysicist and excavator. He plays an active part in the teaching of the MLitt in Battlefield and Conflict Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. His main interests in the subject are the Prehistory and Anthropology of Warfare and Warfare in the Twentieth Century.
Publications
2024
Herva, V.-P., Moshenska, G., Paphitis, T., Äikäs, T., Banks, I. , Nurmi, R., Seitsonen, O. and Thomas, S. (2024) Weird quantities: characterising monstrous landscapes of extraction in the Anthropocene. Time and Mind, (doi: 10.1080/1751696x.2024.2353748) (Early Online Publication)
Banks, I. (2024) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 18(2-3), pp. 67-70. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2023.2318931)
Banks, I. (2024) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 19(1), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2024.2336375)
2022
Banks, I. (2022) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 16(3), pp. 115-118. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2021.2132756)
2020
Banks, I. (2020) “For You, The War is Over? Not a Chance!” captivity and escape at Cultybraggan Prisoner of War camp, Comrie, Perthshire. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(1), pp. 32-64. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1853365)
Banks, I. (2020) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(3), pp. 171-175. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1985913)
Banks, I. (2020) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(2), pp. 168-170. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1925519)
Banks, I. (2020) Editorial JCA 14.2&3. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 14(2-3), pp. 79-82. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2019.1737455)
2019
Banks, I. (2019) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 13(2), pp. 77-79. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2018.1582995)
Thomas, S. and Banks, I. (2019) Asset, burden, Cultybraggan. Community site ownership in a Scottish village. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 6(1), pp. 51-68. (doi: 10.1080/20518196.2018.1548223)
2018
Banks, I. , Koskinen-Koivisto, E. and Seitsonen, O. (2018) Public engagements with Laplands dark heritage: community archaeology in Finnish Lapland. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 5(2), pp. 128-137. (doi: 10.1080/20518196.2017.1383672)
Banks, I. (2018) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 13(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2018.1551981)
2016
Banks, I. and Pollard, T. (2016) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 11(2-3), pp. 59-60. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2017.1366399)
2014
Banks, I. (2014) Digging in the dark: the underground war on the Western Front in WWI. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 9(3), pp. 156-178. (doi: 10.1179/1574077314Z.00000000038)
Banks, I. and Pollard, T. (2014) Beyond recall: searching for the remains of a British secret weapon of World War I. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 9(3), pp. 119-155. (doi: 10.1179/1574077314Z.00000000037)
2012
Banks, I. (2012) Geophysics and the great escape. Leading Edge, 31(8), pp. 916-920. (doi: 10.1190/tle31080916.1)
2011
Banks, I. and Pollard, T. (2011) Protecting a bloodstained history: battlefield conservation in Scotland. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 6(2), pp. 124-145. (doi: 10.1179/157407811X13027741134148)
Banks, I. (2011) Control or repression: contrasting a prisoner of war camp and a work camp from World War Two. In: Myers, A. and Moshenska, G. (eds.) Archaeologies of Internment. Series: One world archaeology. Springer: New York, USA, pp. 111-128. ISBN 9781441996664 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9666-4_7)
2010
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2010) Now the wars are over: The past, present and future of Scottish battlefields. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 14(3), pp. 414-441. (doi: 10.1007/s10761-010-0117-7)
2009
Banks, I. , Duffy, P.R.J. and MacGregor, G. (2009) Archaeology of landscape change in South-West Scotland, 6000 bc – ad 1400: excavations at William Grant and Sons distillery, Girvan. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 32, pp. 1-45.
Banks, I. (2009) Battlefield archaeology. Archaeologist, 74, pp. 10-11.
2008
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2008) The archaeology of the Siege of Leith, 1560. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 109-137. (doi: 10.1163/157407808X382782)
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (Eds.) (2008) Bastions and barbed wire. Koninklijke Brill NV: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789004173606
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2008) Archaeological investigation of military sites on Inchkeith Island. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 109-136. (doi: 10.1163/157407808X382782)
Pollard, T. , Lelong, O., MacKinnon, G., Banks, I. and Barton, P. (2008) Pheasant Wood Fromelles: Report on Evaluation of WWI Mass Graves. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.
2007
Pollard, T. , Barton, P. and Banks, I. (2007) Pheasant Wood, Fromelles: Evaluation of Possible Mass Graves. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.
2006
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2006) War and Sacrifice: Studies in the archaeology of Conflict. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden. ISBN 9789004154582
Banks, I. , Pollard, T. and Poller, T. (2006) Leith Open Spaces Project (Leith siege works) Geophysics. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.
2005
Pollard, T. , Banks, I. , Arthur, J., Clark, J. and Oliver, N. (2005) The survey and excavation of the Anglo-Zulu war fort at Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, pp. 133-180. (doi: 10.1163/157407705774929015)
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2005) Past Tense: Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004149762
2004
Pollard, T. (2004) Lithics report. In: Banks, I. (ed.) Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, pp. 52-53.
1996
Pollard, T. , Atkinson, J. and Banks, I. (1996) It is the technical side of the work which is my stumbling block: a shell midden site on Risga reconsidered. In: Pollard, T. and Morrison, A. (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Scotland. Series: Dalrymple monograph (3). Edinburgh University Press for the University of Glasgow: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748606771
1993
Pollard, T. , Banks, I. and Atkinson, J. (1993) Excavations at Ellisland Farm, Dumfries. Project Report. Templewood.
Articles
Herva, V.-P., Moshenska, G., Paphitis, T., Äikäs, T., Banks, I. , Nurmi, R., Seitsonen, O. and Thomas, S. (2024) Weird quantities: characterising monstrous landscapes of extraction in the Anthropocene. Time and Mind, (doi: 10.1080/1751696x.2024.2353748) (Early Online Publication)
Banks, I. (2024) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 18(2-3), pp. 67-70. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2023.2318931)
Banks, I. (2024) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 19(1), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2024.2336375)
Banks, I. (2022) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 16(3), pp. 115-118. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2021.2132756)
Banks, I. (2020) “For You, The War is Over? Not a Chance!” captivity and escape at Cultybraggan Prisoner of War camp, Comrie, Perthshire. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(1), pp. 32-64. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1853365)
Banks, I. (2020) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(3), pp. 171-175. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1985913)
Banks, I. (2020) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(2), pp. 168-170. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1925519)
Banks, I. (2020) Editorial JCA 14.2&3. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 14(2-3), pp. 79-82. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2019.1737455)
Banks, I. (2019) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 13(2), pp. 77-79. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2018.1582995)
Thomas, S. and Banks, I. (2019) Asset, burden, Cultybraggan. Community site ownership in a Scottish village. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 6(1), pp. 51-68. (doi: 10.1080/20518196.2018.1548223)
Banks, I. , Koskinen-Koivisto, E. and Seitsonen, O. (2018) Public engagements with Laplands dark heritage: community archaeology in Finnish Lapland. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 5(2), pp. 128-137. (doi: 10.1080/20518196.2017.1383672)
Banks, I. (2018) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 13(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2018.1551981)
Banks, I. and Pollard, T. (2016) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 11(2-3), pp. 59-60. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2017.1366399)
Banks, I. (2014) Digging in the dark: the underground war on the Western Front in WWI. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 9(3), pp. 156-178. (doi: 10.1179/1574077314Z.00000000038)
Banks, I. and Pollard, T. (2014) Beyond recall: searching for the remains of a British secret weapon of World War I. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 9(3), pp. 119-155. (doi: 10.1179/1574077314Z.00000000037)
Banks, I. (2012) Geophysics and the great escape. Leading Edge, 31(8), pp. 916-920. (doi: 10.1190/tle31080916.1)
Banks, I. and Pollard, T. (2011) Protecting a bloodstained history: battlefield conservation in Scotland. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 6(2), pp. 124-145. (doi: 10.1179/157407811X13027741134148)
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2010) Now the wars are over: The past, present and future of Scottish battlefields. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 14(3), pp. 414-441. (doi: 10.1007/s10761-010-0117-7)
Banks, I. , Duffy, P.R.J. and MacGregor, G. (2009) Archaeology of landscape change in South-West Scotland, 6000 bc – ad 1400: excavations at William Grant and Sons distillery, Girvan. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 32, pp. 1-45.
Banks, I. (2009) Battlefield archaeology. Archaeologist, 74, pp. 10-11.
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2008) The archaeology of the Siege of Leith, 1560. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 109-137. (doi: 10.1163/157407808X382782)
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2008) Archaeological investigation of military sites on Inchkeith Island. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 109-136. (doi: 10.1163/157407808X382782)
Pollard, T. , Banks, I. , Arthur, J., Clark, J. and Oliver, N. (2005) The survey and excavation of the Anglo-Zulu war fort at Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, pp. 133-180. (doi: 10.1163/157407705774929015)
Books
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2006) War and Sacrifice: Studies in the archaeology of Conflict. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden. ISBN 9789004154582
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (2005) Past Tense: Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004149762
Book Sections
Banks, I. (2011) Control or repression: contrasting a prisoner of war camp and a work camp from World War Two. In: Myers, A. and Moshenska, G. (eds.) Archaeologies of Internment. Series: One world archaeology. Springer: New York, USA, pp. 111-128. ISBN 9781441996664 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9666-4_7)
Pollard, T. (2004) Lithics report. In: Banks, I. (ed.) Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, pp. 52-53.
Pollard, T. , Atkinson, J. and Banks, I. (1996) It is the technical side of the work which is my stumbling block: a shell midden site on Risga reconsidered. In: Pollard, T. and Morrison, A. (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Scotland. Series: Dalrymple monograph (3). Edinburgh University Press for the University of Glasgow: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748606771
Edited Books
Pollard, T. and Banks, I. (Eds.) (2008) Bastions and barbed wire. Koninklijke Brill NV: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789004173606
Research Reports or Papers
Pollard, T. , Lelong, O., MacKinnon, G., Banks, I. and Barton, P. (2008) Pheasant Wood Fromelles: Report on Evaluation of WWI Mass Graves. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.
Pollard, T. , Barton, P. and Banks, I. (2007) Pheasant Wood, Fromelles: Evaluation of Possible Mass Graves. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.
Banks, I. , Pollard, T. and Poller, T. (2006) Leith Open Spaces Project (Leith siege works) Geophysics. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.
Pollard, T. , Banks, I. and Atkinson, J. (1993) Excavations at Ellisland Farm, Dumfries. Project Report. Templewood.
Supervision
- Aiken, Peter
The effectiveness of Allied special operations in WW2 - Carver, Caroline Fyke
Identity and Material Culture: Female Militants at the turn of the 20th Century in the British Isles - McLean, Hannah
Memory and materiality in British-colonial detention camps in Kenya
