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England: Home Thoughts from Abroad
I am reading The Hare with Amber Eyes with the same disquiet that a year ago I was reading the Ragged-trousered Philanthropists this time a year ago. The R-t P echoed my growing disquiet with the politics of the majority in the UK (the way only a book written about the working classes in the years before WW1 can. THwAE was something I bought some ( Read more... ) -
Invisible People (past and present)
Over on FB, my friend lisa_marli shared this: http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/03/young-black-and-victorian/ - for which many thanks (please do head over there and have a look ( Read more... ) -
Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
For all my friends who are writing with settings in Medieval Europe or Early Modern England and are interested in gender or reproduction: new volume of the Social History of Medicine is focussing on fertility - http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/currentAs well as these, are there are two on colonial medicine (malaria in Korea, chronic disease ( Read more... ) -
The value of innovation
This is a recursive post, in that in part it is about innovation, but it is also in itself an innovation - I'm trying to see how to link up with GoodReads (akicolj - advice, please!). Reflecting on what I'm reading seems more a Lj kind of think than Fb ( Read more... ) -
Up the Craftworkers! Promoting the voice and products of artisans: WCMT sixth blog
My Winston Churchill Memorial Trust travel fellowship to India concluded four days of (mainly) meetings in Delhi. Alongside the meetings, I also visited Dilli Haat (a village-market-in-a-metropalis) and the Crafts Museum, and also visited a couple of mass-market craft brands' shops.
The two main focii of my interest can be summarised as finding out ( Read more... ) -
A place for craft - fifth WCMT post
I had only a short time in Lucknow, flying in on Saturday afternoon, having Sunday as a tourist, and visiting another part of SEWA on Monday before flying in the evening to Delhi ( Read more... ) -
Conversations on Design - fourth WCMT blog
Also while I was in Ahmedabad I had meetings with present and past staff and students of the National Institute of Design, and with Adhaar, an NGO which supports craftspeople in various ways, including a fiilm festival and access to low cost, high quality graphic design ( Read more... ) -
Conversations on Design - fourth WCMT blog
Also while I was in Ahmedabad I had meetings with present and past staff and students of the National Institute of Design, and with Adhaar, an NGO which supports craftspeople in various ways, including a fiilm festival and access to low cost, high quality graphic design ( Read more... ) -
Women's Work - third WCMT blog post
One thing several people told me in Shillong: looking after (intangible) culture is women's work. The intersections of crafts (and other heritage) with gender, class/caste, ethnicity, and other aspects of diversity are very strong, and providing much food for thought ( Read more... ) -
What is lost if a craft is lost? - second WCMT blog post
Dr Erik de Maaker asked at the INTACH conference I attended in Shillong “What is lost if a cosmology is lost”. It is a key question which gets to the heart of many of the debates we are having about craft in the UK, and more generally Intangible Heritage / Living Heritage in the UK. Asking this question in the setting of North East India places ( Read more... )