Dinah Winch
@DinahSW
Curator, historian, museum director, citizen of the World.
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21-05-2010 14:14:04
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This was a lovely #DesertIslandDiscs , joyous & moving as it is at its best. The loss of her father was particularly raw. My great grandfather also just walked out on his family one day when my grandmother was a young child. The scar it leaves on a family is immense.
Ban on women’s work.
Ban on women’s travel without a male relative.
Ban on women’s visits to parks even with a male relative.
Ban on girls’ secondary education.
Ban on girls’ university education.
Ban on women’s beauty salons &
NOW;
Ban on girls’ education beyond grade 3.…
All That She Carried, originally published in the US in 2021, apparently, and now released here. The story of a cotton sack, found in a flea market in Tennessee - 'at once a container, carrier textile, art piece and record of past events'. Reviewed in this weekend's Financial Times
Athena, Florence Nightingale's owl. 'Poor little beastie, it was odd how much I loved you'. Florence Nightingale Museum đź’™ I love a museum full of relics!
GOOD NEWS ALERT ✨
Tourism up 140% with culture in the driving seat. Our theatre, music, museums and galleries are unmissable ✨Sadiq Khan Bernard Donoghue Mayor of London's Culture team
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
169 years ago today, 30 Jul 1854, Chinese first arrived in #Jamaica ; 267 indentured labourers on the ship “Epsom” to replace Africans after slavery was abolished. By 1943, there were 12,394 “Chinese” in Jamaica; 2,818 'China-born', 4,061 'local-born', 5,515 'Chinese coloured'…