Tag: DVMWHS
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DVMWHS Research Workshop (March 2025): IF Presentation
I’ll be delivering a presentation, entitled ‘Picking Up Threads or Spinning New Yarns? Investigating the Uncanny in Industrial Age Communities’, at the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Research Workshop, 12.25pm, 25 March, at the Strutts Community Centre, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1UU. The working abstract for the presentation is as follows: The Industrial Folkways project explores…
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Meet the Team: ‘Tommy’
In a previous short post I mentioned that I’m experimenting with prototypes for possible craft and storytelling characters. I’m principally developing craftwork as part of my commercial practice (e.g. possibly as kits to purchase; I’m in the process of reorganising online sales), income from which helps cover IF costs. But I might also incorporate simpler…
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Project Study Areas
Developing previous and ongoing research, IF investigates relevant locations in and around the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. This will involve investigating samples of domestic, industrial and commercial buildings, sites, monuments, landscapes, and other features and spaces, dating to the late 1700s – to mid-1800s; or earlier contexts with activity potentially dating to this…