Tag Archives: exhibitions
The ‘gloomy sky’ and the ‘ruddy glow’ of Dickens’ London
“It was a Sunday evening in London, gloomy, close and stale… Nothing to see but streets, streets, streets. Nothing to breathe but streets, streets, streets.” A ‘Dickensian’ world has become a figure of speech, evoking grim workhouses and haunted graveyards, frosty … Continue reading
Posted in History of Education
Tagged Charles Dickens, child labour, childhood, Christmas, exhibitions, fiction, London, museums, novels, orphans, poverty, social history, Victorians
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How wooden bricks can build a world : the Play Well exhibition at the Wellcome Gallery
Little wooden cubes and balls, plain and smooth, tiny wooden squares and triangles, painted in primary colours, all elevated to the status of exhibits in glass cases. Contemporary art perhaps? Much better. The next case shows a wooden model of … Continue reading
Posted in History of Education
Tagged dolls, exhibitions, Froebel, gender roles, history of education, outdoor learning, play, Reggio Emilia, toy bricks, toys
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Social networks — in papercraft and calligraphy
Social networks — in papercraft and calligraphy Did you have a friendship album when you were little? My teachers in primary school were mobbed for entries into our ‘poetry albums’, as they were known in German; my father wrote a … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum Resources
Tagged art education, art history, British Library, exhibitions, Shakespeare, social history
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The wondrous world of book illustration
If you have not been to the fabulous exhibition about 150 years of Alice in Wonderland, it is still on until 16 April 2016. It is right in the foyer of the British Library, and it is free of charge. You … Continue reading
‘Alice in Wonderland’: from quaint tea-tins to magic mushrooms
You see yourself and the world around you slightly warped in large mirrors; you follow hypnotic black-and-white spirals and signs asking you to turn corners; you are sucked into the picture of a lurid purple and turquoise room, with bottles of … Continue reading
Posted in Library and Archives
Tagged British Library, children's literature, exhibitions, illustrations, Lewis Carroll
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The tiger who came out of the page
For you, the moment of recognition might be the Tiger who came to tea and peacefully took a seat at your mum’s kitchen table; or Aslan, the giant benign lion, jumping out of the pages of the Chronicles of Narnia; … Continue reading
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