Rebecca Osborn’s bluestocking summer
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Rebecca Osborn’s bluestocking summer
Read Morean inspiring conversation about everyday stuff and big ideas
Read Morethe “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales
Read Morecontemporary bluestockings, Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere
Read Morecontemporary bluestockings sharing their knitting, their learning and their feminism
Read MoreIntroducing a talented designer and her fascinating professional journey
Read MoreIntroducing wise and generous Aoife Mc Lysaght
Read MoreCelebrating the world’s first sock knitting book, and its bluestocking author
Read MoreNicole tells us more about her work on the women of the Bluestocking circle
Read Moreall about the Bluestocking club
Read MoreNews about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club
Read MoreCelebrating the work of a trailblazing black British woman writer
Read MoreCelebrating brilliant knitters around the world for international women’s day
Read MoreKate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel
Read MoreI’ve a long-held fascination with late eighteenth-century hot air balloons and ballooning. In fact, I’ve even knitted an eighteenth-century balloon (in a square of our International Women’s Day blanket, which references the Montgolfier balloon that appears in the final lines of Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s brilliant poem, Washing Day) In the past few weeks, my historic…
Read MoreAs part of my research for the introduction to our People Make Glasgow book, I’ve been doing some highly enjoyable work poking about the city’s eighteenth and nineteenth-century post office directories, which provide intriguing lists of Glasgow’s merchants, manufacturing and retail businesses (much like the yellow pages). Looking at these directories across a century or…
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