Cherish Watton-Colbrook
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📦 Archives Assistant, @chuarchives 📚 PhD, history of scrapbooking 🚜 Founder https://t.co/R6UhPvtUgw 🏆 @RoyalHistSoc winner 🎙@TheScrapbookPod. Views own.
Cambridge
Joined May 2009
How it started back in 2021 and how it's going - my second journal article published in Archives and Records.🎉 https://t.co/JhRTkLTuSI
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Tuesday 3rd December at 17.30 -The last paper of the term. @CherishWatton will speak online, presenting 'Scrapbooking on the Royal Family: self-fashioning and family archiving in modern Britain'. Everyone is welcome. Details are in the link. https://t.co/FKAqyEwpEu
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Delighted to see Fragmentary Forms out in the world!
Reading a new (British) history of collage that argues that the medium was invented not by Picasso and Braque but by generations of unacknowledged women who quilted and made scrapbooks and excelled at botanic crafts.
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Out so soon! I can’t quite believe it
Fragmentary Forms by @Freya_Gowrley is a beautifully illustrated global history of #collage from the origins of paper to today. Presenting an expansive approach to collage and the history of #art, this book is out 29 Oct. UK / 12 Nov. US. Learn more: https://t.co/UlLcpitGTN
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DELIGHTED my latest article 'The Agency of a Marmalade Machine: Gender, Class and Mechanical Gadgets in the British Kitchen, c. 1870 to 1938' is out in Gender & History: https://t.co/G0He2WIUt8
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This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so-called ‘labou...
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I'm really excited that my article ‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp' has been published in @womenshistrev
https://t.co/dc6JJEACSw
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A special thank you to @RadwinterWI for allowing me to look through their various scrapbooks. Thanks also to @smidbob for the opportunity to contribute to Paper Trails. And finally, thank you to @onslies who first told me about this special issue last summer.
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I'm very happy to share this new piece where I explore how WIs & local history groups engaged with scrapbooks during the pandemic.✂️ Some of these groups created new volumes, while others found it comforting to return to scrapbooks made by their predecessors in the 1960s.📚
In ‘Creative Responses to Covid-19: Unearthing, Sharing and Making Scrapbooks’, @CherishWatton juxtaposed historic and present methods of capturing everyday experiences
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On this day in 2013, an artist called Audrey Amiss died alone in her south London flat, aged 79. She documented the last day of her life by pasting some food packaging into a scrapbook, and recording the things she noticed in her final hours.
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I'm super thrilled to write that the British Society for the History of Science has shortlisted my book for the PICKSTONE PRIZE! This is wonderful news, not least because the BSHS has been my intellectual home for many years. @BSHSNews @UChicagoPress #hps #histsci @IMEMSDurham
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A few reflections on running the 50 stories for 50 years series to mark the 50th Anniversary of @ChuArchives over the last year.⬇️
As we bring our 50 stories for 50 years series to a close, we reflect on some of the stories told by our researchers, staff, & volunteers about the Archives Centre.🎉 Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors!🌟 #AC50 #archives
https://t.co/tLj7oXGJB9
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A fab day spent with @knights_skye learning about the important work of the WLA and WTC in Suffolk.🚜 It was an honour to be invited to write the foreword for the souvenir programme.✒️ And of course, we came away with these beautifully crocheted Land Girls, Millie & Lily.🧶
Back home from a wonderful day visiting Saxham Hall to celebrate the work of The Suffolk Women's Land Army Memorial Trust. A fantastic time spent listening to inspiring, poignant stories about what it was like to be a Land Girl & Lumber Jill in Suffolk.
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I'm very pleased to share that yesterday I passed my viva! 🎉 A huge thank you to my examiners @PeterMandler1 and Penny Tinkler for a stimulating discussion about scrapbooking.📚✂️ Thank you also to my wonderful supervisor @suff66 for her expertise, support and inspiration.
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Yes, keeping the Lumberjills' story alive! So important to for women today to hear about these incredible role models. Bless your mum, dear Edna!
Thankyou @Dalby_Forest for keeping the Lumberjills’ story alive. What a lovely surprise to see mum beaming down on us on a visit to Dalby today. @jofoat - mum would be thrilled!
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It has been a very long time in the making, but I have pressed send on the final manuscript for Growing Up and Going Out. It's a book about youth culture, leisure, and the remaking of the post-war city. Coming to a library shelf near you soon!
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Great to see this out - and in paperback! It’s a moving set of accounts of living through lockdown from the Mass Observers who kept thousands of Covid diaries. Nick has drawn out a set of crosscutting themes and topped and tailed them with insightful essays. Unmissable!
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Come work with me! Fully-funded PhD to research material life in Gressenhall workhouse
findaphd.com
PhD Project - Material Life in the Workhouse: Gressenhall Workhouse, Norfolk, 1777-1948 at Anglia Ruskin University ARU, listed on FindAPhD.com
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After a few days of catching up with family, friends, and sleep, I’m overjoyed to share that last Friday, I submitted my PhD thesis! 🎉 🥳 📚🎨
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Today's #ArchiveFind is this wonderful 1909 suffragette calendar featuring Christabel Pankhurst. Held in Jill Craigie's archive 📁7JCC #VotesForWomen
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We've added 5 brand new papers to The Archive this week, including the 'Prisoners of War News' from the Second World War and 'The Regiment,' an 'illustrated military journal for everybody.' Find out more here: https://t.co/JjyYdtnhvt
#TuesdayTitles #MilitaryHistory
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