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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: January 2013

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On Sunday I spent a wonderful afternoon visiting the exhibition Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men. At the Museum of London. The exhibition stems from the discoveries made during an archaeological dig at the old burial ground of the Royal London Hospital (find out more here. The exhibition was fascinating and really well presented, and contributed to a swirling mass of incomplete ideas I have recently been exploring about the role of death and possessions in Our Mutual Friend. The 1832 Anatomy Act ...

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: Some thoughts on recipe books and collections

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Some thoughts on recipe books and collections. Two blog posts in a week! Today I've written about recipe books and collecting. Over on the blog for the upcoming conference (which you really ought to register for) ' Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945. You can read my post, where I try to make sense of my cookery scrapbook, here. Sunday, January 19, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm a PhD student at the University of Warwick, researching Victorians and their collections.

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: October 2012

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Some literature on collecting seems to suggest that the pursuit of a collection is a wholesome hobby in childhood, but a sinister one in an adult. In his otherwise admirable book Touch. In fact, Susan Pearce's comprehensive study of collecting behaviours, On Collecting. In the process of collecting for the crabby collection. 65279; In the nineteenth century, children were actively encouraged to start collections. It was felt to be an enriching and worthwhile pastime. Instruction m...Published in 1888&#...

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: June 2013

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Anti-scrape and The Red House. In the 1950s the house came into the ownership of the Hollamby family, who lived there with friends for many years, and in 2003 it came into the possession of the National Trust, who have been uncovering its secrets ever since. Settle in the hallway at Red House, with painting by William Morris partially completed. Image source. Wool and silk embroidered panel. Image source. Part way through conservation of the Lizzie Siddal wall painting, with some wallpaper still to be sc...

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: September 2012

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Collectors at Calke Abbey. Yesterday I took a trip to sunny Derbyshire with my Mum and Sister to visit Calke Abbey. A National Trust property tucked away down a long winding drive, near the village of Ticknall. All images either my own or courtesy of Helen Addyman. Taxidermy dioramas in the Saloon. Display case of shells in the Saloon. Taking a closer look at stuffed Kingfishers in the Bird Lobby. Despite the huge number of items making up the collections, many pieces were lost to neglect over the years,...

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: January 2014

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Some thoughts on recipe books and collections. Two blog posts in a week! Today I've written about recipe books and collecting. Over on the blog for the upcoming conference (which you really ought to register for) ' Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945. You can read my post, where I try to make sense of my cookery scrapbook, here. Sunday, January 19, 2014. Association objects and contagion. By the time I delivered my paper on the last panel of the final day, my brain was fried. Fig 2 Lab...

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: Call for papers

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Curiosity 2.0: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Contemporary Art. 16–17 January 2015, Castle Chapel, Royal Palace Dresden. 8220;No one wants to return to the deliberate chaos of the Kunstkammer. As museums.”. 8232;Horst Bredekamp, The Lure of Antiquity. Since the 1990s there has been a more pronounced interest within contemporary art in exploring the Kunstkammer. The term ‘cabinet of curiosities’ has become almost hackneyed in contemporary art criticism. This conference, therefore, will seek...Is not concer...

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: April 2012

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Royal Mail have angered stamp collectors this year by issuing a proliferation of commemorative stamps, which collectors say is killing their hobby by making it impossible for them to keep up with every stamp issued. Hunter Davies at the Guardian writes that. To young mind before the digital age, a single stamp of unfamiliar places and objects is a macro-world in itself. You can look at it for hours. There is no death, no destructions, no nastiness within the little world of stamps. This seems, to me, to ...

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: May 2015

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Transatlantic Telegraphs: Cable Souvenirs in Southwark. This year I’ve been doing some more research at the Cuming Museum into a particularly fascinating group of objects from their collections. The research is still ongoing, but here's what I've got so far. These items are a bit different to the relics I’ve written about before. So far, so British. But the commemorative cable items in the Cuming Museum do suggest that the British people wanted to mark the success of the cable in some way. These ...Trade...

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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: July 2012

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I can't be the only person to have noticed the proliferation of TV shows about hoarders that have been on recently. On top of Channel 4's one-off show Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder, which I wrote about before, the channel have now added 'The Hoarder Next Door'. In which a rather smooth psychotherapist helps hoarders to get rid of vast amounts of stuff, and 'Get Your House in Order'. Which I didn't manage to catch. A) Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of actual value.