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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Emily Cockayne retweeted
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.
Emily Cockayne retweeted
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.
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…
Emily Cockayne retweeted
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
Emily Cockayne retweeted
Joan Eardley (1921- 1963)
"Flowers by the Wayside",
UK painter who was based in Scotland #WomensArt
Emily Cockayne retweeted
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.
Emily Cockayne retweeted
Frankie pics still missing. Anyone got a lead here?
Has anyone seen Frank Kitz?Half-German, half-English, all-Anarchist. Pics of him very much wanted! summerstown182.wordpress.com… #FreedomForTooting
Emily Cockayne retweeted
I’ve just posted possibly the most important thing I’ve written – something I wish I could ask every woman to read. (Link in bio).
Like many people, I’m watching Adolescence – and am struck by how online misogyny is so far presented as a young man’s game.
Emily Cockayne retweeted
Happy International Women's Day!
To celebrate, we are making Caroline Stanford's talk on Eleanor Coade and her London manufactory available to watch here:
youtube.com/watch?v=d8w30kwz…
@LandmarkHistory
Emily Cockayne retweeted
Delighted to see my latest article is available on Open Access. ‘The Politics of Pageantry: Royal Tours and Imperial Pomp on the Periphery of Empire.’ Thank you @diplostatecraft for your encouragement and support. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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It's hard to overstate the impact of this education. Not only were consumers more informed, but people at home knew how to mend clothing or repurpose things they no longer wore. There was a *culture* of repair, such that people bought and kept things for longer.
Emily Cockayne retweeted
Did you know that, like a certain high street bookstore, we also have a reward point scheme?
Unlike them, we are are not a US big corp owned chain, but a tiny little family-owned indie in North Yorkshire. Like all indie bookstores, we need your support, now more than ever!
Just look at how many points some of our regular customers have! (that's over £88 there at the top!). These could be yours too if you start saving today.
foxlanebooks.co.uk/loyalty
Emily Cockayne retweeted
Ok this is a bit harrowing but we do need to talk about it.
You know this whole “why did the police ignore grooming” thing in the 2000s?
Well I was a kid in the 2000s. I was born in 1996. And I want to talk about what society thought about “girls making bad choices”
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Emily Cockayne retweeted
Please tell your daughter that you love her and you will never be angry or punish her if she makes a bad decision and gets hurt or abused for it: whether that’s drugs, pornography, alcohol, staying out late, or hiding an older boy from you
Emily Cockayne retweeted
'O Sapientia', the first of the seven 'O' antiphons, for the last seven days of Advent. This fragment from a 14th-century manuscript was recycled as the binding on a collection of 16th century pamphlets #Christmas #Manuscripts #Fragments
ALT vellum fragment with O Antiphon for advent