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E-text of George Gissing’s novel The Odd Women (1893) available here, notable for the two lead characters running a typewriting school and bureau.
” ‘…. There’s a good deal of employment for women who learn to use a typewriter. Did you ever have piano lessons?’
‘No.’
‘No more did I, and I was sorry for it when I went to typewriting. The fingers have to be light and supple and quick. Come with me, and I’ll show you one of the machines.’ “
Rhoda Nunn, speaking to Monica Madden, in Chapter 3: An Independent Woman.
Writing Acts is listed on University College Falmouth’s Learning Space site for postgrads and MAs in C20th Art and Design.
I am currently finalising all the content for the new Design History Society website and as part of this, I am collecting current and recent design history PhDs (and MPhils) – others, not my own – for publication, as a survey of the field as it now stands.
If your doctorate research project is part of this field, and you would like your details included, please email me your name, the research project title, your institutional affiliation and the dates of study. Thank you!
The archive of British Telecom contains the Post Office Archive, which includes the history of the telephone and the telegraph.
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Essay by Fredrik Albritton Johsson on manual dexterity and its application to economic theories and practices, incl. Adam Smith, Wedgewood, etc. In Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier, editors. Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2005. (Wellcome Library has a copy, call no. DA.AM, Open Shelves, Gallery Annexe.)
The Journal of Modern Craft launched last week, and has made the contents of its first issue freely available. The contents of the first issue are below. To download a copy of an article or review, the contents are available here.
Articles
- Fiber Art and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft, 1960-80 by Elissa Auther
- Materials, Skills and Cultural Resources: Onta Folk Art Pottery Revisited by Brian Moeran
- Sources of Modernity: The Interpretations of Vernacular Crafts in Polish Design around 1900 by Andrzej Szczerski
- The Arts and Crafts Education of the Brücke: Expressions of Craft and Creativity by Christian Weikop
- Simon Starling: Crafting the Modern by Tag Gronberg
- Statement of Practice: Five Thousand Years (Some Notes, Some Works) by Simon Starling
- Primary Text introduced by Alice Twemlow
- Primary Text: Sparks from a Plastic Anvil: The Craftsman in Technology by Reyner Banham
Exhibition Reviews
- Care, Class and Cultural Capital Bespoke: The Pervasiveness of the Handmade by David Craig
- An Old Story about a New World? Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939 by Daniel Schreiber
- Mechanic Mythologist David Smith. A Centennial by Robert Slifkin
Book Reviews
- By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art by Sue Green
- Ceramic Millennium: Critical Writings on Ceramic History, Theory, and Art by Freyja Hartzell
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