New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A collection of knitting patterns held in Southampton, an archive of Victorian greeting cards in Manchester, information about music hall and pantomime pulled together in Kent and the National Archives holdings of boat maps come under the microscope in today's conversation. New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton's guests are Rachel Dickinson, Eleonora Gandolfi, Helen Brooks and Lucia Pereira Pardo.
The research projects featured are: Rachel Dickinson, Manchester Metropolitan University - Celebrations: Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards exploring a collection of over 32,000 cards collected by Laura Seddon https://www.mmu.ac.uk/special-collections-museum/collections/laura-seddon-collection
Eleonora Gandolfi, University of Southampton - Reimagining Knitting: a community perspective focusing on patterns and information contained in three collections assembled by Montse Stanley, Jane Waller and The Reverend Monsignor Richard Rutt known as "the Knitting Bishop" https://www.southampton.ac.uk/intheloop/collections/index.page
Helen Brooks, University of Kent - Beyond the Binary: performing gender then and now explores different aspects of the David Drummond Pantomime collection - a collection put together by the second hand book dealer https://www.kent.ac.uk/library-it/special-collections/theatre-and-performance-collections/david-drummond-pantomime-collection and the Max Tyler Music Hall Collection - Max Tyler was the archivist (between 1984-2012) and historian (between 1993-2016) of the British Music Hall Society https://www.kent.ac.uk/library-it/special-collections/theatre-and-performance-collections/max-tyler-music-hall-collection
Lucia Pereira Pardo, National Archives who is working on The Prize Papers a collection of articles and papers linked to ships which includes court records revealing the details of 1,500 ships captured during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and 55 case books relating to ships seized by the British between 1793 and 1815 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/prize-papers-research-portal-launched/
Producer: Paula McFarlane
You can find more conversations about New Research gathering into a playlist on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
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| 0:45.1 | I'm Naomi Paxton, and in today's new thinking episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, |
| 0:49.9 | I'm talking to four researchers about four very different archive collections from across the UK. |
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| 0:59.0 | scraps of fabric and garments that reveal forgotten fashions, |
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