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3H Heritage, History & Her wordmark and logo. Logo is an hand drawn style illustration of a 1700s girl with quill in mouth surrounded by books in a arch window shape. Cream version.
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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 […]

One Sex Theory : Gender has always been a Spectrum​

These look very similar which is why this is know as One Sex Theory - they are two versions of the same organs.

There are more and more ways a person can describe their gender. Its common for those scared by these developments to reference back to a past where things were simpler. In reality, those in the past also viewed gender as a spectrum, just like we are moving back to today.

Do fashion trends return every 100 years?

Mannequin wearing a 1700 stays (early version of Corset) and Paniers which were a hoop like structure that went under the gowns so it extended the width of the torso out to either side yet was an oval when seen from above.

Fashion trends return to the same idea and values almost every 100 years. They may have different presentations but there’s definitely a repetitive fashion loop.

How a government blunder meant women voted in 1868

Victorian photograph of Lily Maxwell sat down. The first women voter in 1867,

Most people know 1918 as the first time some women voted in the UK, but women successfully voted in the 1869 election. The suffragists of Manchester led a huge campaign after spotting that the wording of the 1868 Reform Bill was wrong. The wording accidentally enfranchised women who met its other criteria, leading to thousands of women voting.

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