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Royal babies: a late-nineteenth-century perspective
By Helen Sunderland (@hl_sunderland) Last week, the world’s media was fixed on the arrival of another royal baby. At less than a week old, pictures of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, the first child of Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the Queen’s eighth great-grandchild, have been shared around the globe. Although the…
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The History of Advertising Trust: preservation, management, and marketing in modern Britain
By Alistair Moir (Archive and Library Collections Manager, https://www.hatads.org.uk/.) The History of Advertising Trust (HAT) is a nationally accredited archive service established in 1976 to preserve the heritage of the UK advertising industry and make it available for study and research. Today the HAT archive is the most comprehensive collection of British advertising and marketing communications in…
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Angela Davis in conversation: legacies, lessons and reflections on resistance, justice and hope
By Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) and Aoife O’Leary McNeice (@aolmcn) We were both lucky enough to attend two events with the revered black communist scholar and activist Professor Angela Davis in March and April. The first was held at the Southbank Centre in London for International Women’s Day as part of the Women of the World festival with the…
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Daydreaming in Linoleum: Postwar Advertisements and Domestic Fictions
By Kate Schneider Every era has material nova that signal the newness of the present age. In the 1930s, it was the shine of early plastics such as Bakelite and celluloid that made them attractive modern surfaces. But in the 1950s and 1960s, domestic daydreams about ideal homes were played out in the medium of…
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‘Living’ the museum experience: The development of open-air museums in Britain
By Emily Redican-Bradford How will museums look in the future? That’s the question that the #FutureMuseum Project seeks to answer. Through an online collaboration platform, international experts in the heritage sector have been sharing their views about how the industry will change in coming years.[1] One of the most prominent ideas is that the success…
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