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Heritage, History & Her

Case Study: Heritage Skills

Page in Groundwork South and North Tyneside's Impact Report. Text reads: Enriching Lives through Culture and Heritage. Inspiring engagement and discovery informed by our past, present and future. Skills from the past, for the future Our Heritage Skills project offers people of all ages and abilities, the chance to learn skills in traditional crafts such as; basket weaving, thatching, metallurgy, embroidery, leatherwork and calligraphy. Working alongside specialists in heritage crafts, volunteers and visitors gain knowledge and understanding in heritage skills that can then be put to good use in shaping the future of Jarrow Hall's Anglo-Saxon Farm, Village. Jarrow Hall apprentice, Molly Wyatt, played a key role in the success of this heritage skills project. 2390 Volunteer Hours 69 Heritage Skills Workshops Delivered 91 Volunteers Recruited Supported by Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. The right side of the landscape page has an image of 4 volunteers around medieval bellows learning metallurgy. The Jarrow Hall logo is beneath this.

Coordination and development of a series of workshops teaching volunteers heritage skills to bring Jarrow Hall’s Anglo-Saxon ‘village’ back to life.

My Dissertation Project Exhibition: Stories Told In Stitches

Photo of my Stories Told in Stitches at the Museum of Cornish Life. Cases can been seen displaying items relating to working women such as a balmaiden's cap. Also seen are mannequins wearing aprons and Women's Land Army uniforms

Stories Told in Stitches Museum of Cornish Life January – July 2022 An exhibition at the Museum of Cornish Life using their costume collection. Cultivator https://youtu.be/0QD1vxSAcBM?si=L58o7P3Z2LokVFf9 Background Stories Told in Stitches came from my internship at the Museum of Cornish Life as an Assistant Museum Curator funded by Cultivator and organised through the University of […]