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The Art of Tapestry: In Conversation

Join Helen Wyld for the launch of her book The Art of Tapestry in conversation with Dovecot Studios Director Celia Joicey Tapestry expert Helen Wyld presents the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades. Helen offers a fresh perspective on the history of tapestry across...

Wyld, Helen
Craft, English tapestry, Tapestry design, Method, Weaving, English, National Trust, Material culture, Tapestry history, Production, European tapestry, and Tapestry
2022

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Ancient African Queens: New Perspectives on Black History

See our panel discuss how reassessing 19th and 20th century colonial attitudes can bring new perspectives to fascinating aspects of ancient Egyptian culture and its place in African history. In the 19th and 20th centuries European and American Egyptologists appropriated ancient Egypt into an idea of ‘Western civilisation’ and set...

Maitland , Margaret ; Ashby, Solange
Queens, Nubia, Biases, Egypt, African, 19th century , Nubian, Egyptology, Pharaonic, Africa, African history, Black history, Colonial legacies, Colonial , Material culture, Queen, 20th century, Nubian culture, Qurna, and Qurna burial