Category: Storytelling
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Picking Up Threads or Spinning New Yarns? Presentation
I presented a paper (‘Picking Up Threads or Spinning New Yarns? Investigating the Uncanny in Industrial Communities’) at this year’s (2025) DVMWHS Research Workshop, in the Strutt Centre, Belper, today, summarising the IF project. For any who were unable to make it; and audience members who might find further perusal useful; I’ve provided the content…
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Exploring Otherworld Derby: Fact and Fiction
Industrial Folkways’ investigations begin in and around Derby, due to the availability and accessibility of both existing evidence, and previous research; and (informed by the primary and secondary sources), the potential for finding further data of relevance to the project. In an old town like this, we can reach out and touch the past: it’s…
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The Story of the Cup: Creative Writing Competition!
Part 2 of the Finding Festive Feasts Quiz briefly mentioned that porcelain cup sherds, dating to the late 1700s, were found during excavations of the stables and stable-yard (in what is now the Craft Village) at Markeaton.* Archaeological evidence (discussed in the Interactive Guide) points towards stable workers living in the loft above the tack…
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A New Storytelling Folk Figure in the Making!
Here’s a quick clue to the another IF folk figure who’ll soon be joining the team: tiny late Georgian stays (corset)! More soon!