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Johan Zoffany, Society Observed: at the Royal Academy, London.
Quite a quick post today. I am still working on my hand-stitched pieces and don’t have much very exciting to photograph. So, I thought I would recommend an exhibition I went to this week at the...
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What I did at the weekend.
This weekend was my mother’s birthday so we went up to Nottingham for an overnight trip. While we were there mum suggested that she would like to go to an exhibition at the Castle – the Robin Hood...
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What I did at the weekend
Sometimes life is awful and other times the gods take your blessing bucket, fill it up, press it down and then put a bit more in. This is the case for me with what is often a deeply boring...
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What I did at the weekend II
After the success of the trip to the Design Museum in Denmark, it would have been greedy to have hoped for much more, but on Saturday my magnificent hosts Sara and Alf and my new partner in art, Sara’s...
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St Fagans National History Museum – handling quilts collection
On Thursday I gave myself the great treat of a coach trip to St Fagans Museum of National History, just outside Cardiif in South Wales. It was Bristol Quilters’ Annual Summer Outing, and we went to...
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Ballgowns at the V&A
On Monday, Lisa, a new friend and colleague, and I met in London, and, as part of our time together, went to the ballgown exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. We were more interested in...
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Collections, collecting and unexpected encounters
I had a slightly strange day yesterday. I went for a meeting about a research project that we are about to start and the team met in the Wellcome Collection’s cafe. The cafe is great and there is a...
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St Laura and the Nuits blanches
On Friday night I found myself completely unable to sleep: wide awake, thoughts racing through my head. I tried all those relaxation exercises, but after a while I gave in and got up. I went...
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Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou at Nottingham Comtempoary
Whenever I come up to my mother’s house I try to get to Notttingham Contemporary, which is a gallery specialising in contemporary art – as you might expect from the name. I like it because it is...
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What I did at the weekend
It is very nearly my birthday and the Medieval Historian has to do work of national importance on that day, clearly, so on Sunday I had my official birthday. We went to the recently...
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What I did at the weekend
As part of my day job, I chair a scholarly organisation of academics working with critical or alternative ideas about management and organising, SCOS, which stands for Standing Conference on...
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Out of fashion at glHoltegaard
I am still in Copenhagen enjoying an extended work visit. My hosts are quite wonderful and suggested that I might like to see an exhibition just outside the city in a little place on the way to...
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Kaffe Fassett at the London Fashion and Textiles Museum
Yesterday I went to the London Fashion and Textile Museum with my Grate Frend, Beatriz. We went to see the Kaffe Fassett exhibition. She had never heard of him, which I found a bit strange as all...
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In which it is revealed just how shallow I am
Last week I had a fantastic time in Oxford and London. I was in Oxford to give a talk to the lovely Oxford Embroiderers, and London for a meeting of a research team. While I was in Oxford I...
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Drawing armour at the Wallace Collection
The first subject on this week’s list of things to blog about was drawing armour at the Wallace Collection. This all started because I am interested in men’s workwear, and in particular the...
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Learning Medieval Embroidery at the Ashmolean
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that there were several things I wanted to blog about: drawing armour at the Wallace Collection, and drawing zentangles, then there was the Kevin Coates exhibition...
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The Evil Eye Collar
This piece is based on a very common amulet. Amulets to ward off the Evil Eye are found all over the world, and the eyes are often blue, as seen on the cover of Desmond Morris’s book containing...
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What I did at the weekend
This weekend was spent filling up the reservoir, as it were, as I spent a lot of time with my Grate Frend Beatriz at exhibitions and in art shops. On Friday we went to the blockbuster exhibition...
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A period Laura Ashley bedroom open for visits
The Medieval Historian and I brushed the gathering dust off our National Trust cards and went to Newark Park to see a bedroom specially decorated to feature in the Laura Ashley home catalogue: I was...
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My last post was about Newark Park and the Laura Ashley bedroom. While I was there I also found time to admire some of the wonderful needlework around the house. There is a good range of embroidery,...
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