Cherish Watton considers what a scrapbooking scene in a recent BBC drama can tell us about the value of scrapbooks as radical sources for uncovering women’s lives.
Tag: material culture
Banner Tales: material culture and the making of solidarity
Banner Tales is a collaboration between geographers and Glasgow Museums staff. The project has encouraged reflection on the relationship between material cultures and the makings of solidarity.
Radical Object: A Nice Cup of Tea? Everyday Ceramics as Sites of Empire
What can eighteenth-century ceramics tell us about empire? Elisabeth Grass examines how fine china tea cups and saucers became fashionable commodities that represent some of the many ways in which empire appeared, and was normalised, in British homes.
Radical Objects: A Radical Jug?
How do we determine whether an object is radical? Ruth Mather on the Farmer’s Arms jug at the People’s History Museum.
The Radical History of a Bed Sheet
Anna Maria Radcliffe created a bed sheet that functioned as an instrument of personal and communal memory, and as an agent of religious and political resistance.
Radical Objects: Covenanter Gravestones as Political Protest
Memorials marking the graves and celebrating the sacrifices of the Restoration martyrs can be read as political texts.
The Pacifist Handkerchief
The pacifist handkerchief invites reflections on contested memories in modern Japanese history.
