I don’t post here now. …Cultural/social/materials historian: anonymous letters. Hubbub /Cheek by Jowl /Rummage / Penning Poison. UEA Associate Prof
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I’ll be leading a guided 2-hour walk of Soho on Weds 20 May for @citylit at 11am
We'll explore the area as a site of radical politics, the policing of vice and the working lives of those who made the gorgeous clobber in the department store windows
Deets: tinyurl.com/5x4zaarw
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The face of poverty ~ a child’s “shoe doll”, found in a London slum in 1905, made from fabric scraps, the heel of a man’s shoe and a black sock (Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh)
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It’s very difficult (as you’ll see) to get a good pic of @Fortnums window displays. They’re always imaginative but these creatures, made of recycled materials, are absolutely magnificent. I’m bagging the hyena for my living room.
Is this the same person a few years apart. Is he even wearing the same suit? Both photos were taken in the same photography studio
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Objects of Poverty edited by @JoeHarley1988 & Vicky Holmes is out in just over a month, including a chapter by me about cobbled-together whistles. The cover features my bonkers barometer & one of the button whistles I write about.
Pre-order your copy!
bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-of…
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I am Maria Noori, former university lecturer in Afghanistan.
Since August 15, I’ve been banned from teaching, education, and freedom.
August 15 is a black day for Afghan women.
Stand with us.
#FreeAfghanWomen #AfghanistanBlackDay #MariaNoori
Maria Noori, women’s rights activist and university lecturer: “August 15 is a black day in the history of Afghanistan. I am an Afghan woman, banned from education, work, and freedom. The world must stand with Afghan women.”
#FreeAfghanWomen #AfghanistanBlackDay
Emily Cockayne retweeted
When I was writing In Her Nature, The Salt Path’s spectre hung over me.
IHN is partly about how physically unwell and isolated I felt after losing numerous family members in 2019 – and how I tried to make myself feel better by running long-distances across North Yorkshire.
I last had time to sew in November. I'm trying to get back into it. I'm bad at faces, so apologies @Arifa_Akbar for my version of the cover of your amazing book (which I loved so much).
Rules : I reuse materials I already have / I can't spend longer sewing than I did reading
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Penning Poison: neighbours and anonymous Wicked Little Letters youtu.be/Cx7FBzwZO-M?si=rrQR… via @YouTube
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Get your preorder in now!
Emily Cockayne retweeted
I’ll be doing my first-ever London walks for @CityLit next month and would be delighted if you’d care to stroll with me.
First up, a 2-hour exploration of Whitechapel/Spitalfields and life there in the late-19th-century – on Tuesday 8 July, 11am
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Please join me on Thursday 5 June at the William Morris Gallery, London E17 for an illustrated talk on the Old Nichol district of late-Victorian London. £10, 7.30pm
williammorrisgallery.co.uk/e…
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One of my favourite finds and still something of a mystery. A small hammer or anvil attached to a repurposed file. It’s been suggested it may have been used in gold or silversmithing .
#mudlarking #mudlarkingfinds
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Joan Eardley (1921- 1963)
"Flowers by the Wayside",
UK painter who was based in Scotland #WomensArt
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A wonderful start to today’s study day, ‘Multiple Identities: Telling Life Stories Through Objects’ as @DrKKennedy challenges is us to ‘find the whispers’ of past lives behind objects.
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Emily Cockayne (@uniofeastanglia) discusses the lives of garments and shines a light on the lives of menders, whose sheer skill (hiding their material interventions) has made their art and lives invisible to us today.
