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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

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Tune into @BBCRadio4 Archive on 4 on 15 June at 1800 to hear me and Ruby Tandoh talk about the history of the kitchen in Fitted & Kitted or catch up on @BBCSounds . Feat. @JohnnyGrey @lulugrimes @lloydalter @KeepCalmFannyOn & others

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Fitted and Kitted

Rattling the archive drawers of 100 years of British kitchens.

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

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1 year

Why would designers possibly need to be educated in design history? The Telegraph’s breaking news logo. No, this isn’t a parody.

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I failed 3 of 4 A’levels, graduated with a 1st & did a PhD. Things were very difficult at home & nobody in my family had stayed on at school beyond 16 before. My university helped me realise my potential & I worked very hard. Should I have been denied the opportunity?

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I got A D D E in my A’levels. I was v troubled 6th former of poor single mum, first in family to stay on at school past 16. I got 1st @Uni_of_Essex due to brilliant teaching & support. I became @V_and_A curator then did PhD; now a professor. That opportunity at 18 changed my life

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Hundreds of students with less than three D grades at A level are going on to get first-class degrees each year. Story @nicolawoolcock @thetimes @nickhillman

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The material culture of the Second World War absorbed into everyday life

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A life-long Londoner could walk past hundreds of these fences, and never know they were looking at Second World War stretchers

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Apparently the Telegraph’s lead graphic designer needs to “promote a rich tradition of typographic application’. I suppose that’s one way of putting it 👀

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My Nanny Nora has had cake & chocolates on her 96th birthday today but unlike the Queen, Prince Philip & Stanley Johnson she hasn’t had a Covid-19 vaccination

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We won!!! As series consultant & onscreen contributor, I’m thrilled to bits that #AHouseThroughTime has won @BroadcastAwards . Many congratulations to @DavidOlusoga & our brilliant team @WBITVP Twenty Twenty for @BBCTwo

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The Best Specialist Factual Programme of 2021 goes to – A House Through Time, Twenty Twenty Productions for @BBCTwo #BroadcastAwards

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Forgive me if I’ve been a bit mouthy on here this week but me & many colleagues in my post-92 have had formal “at potential risk of redundancy” letters this week. Do we want an HE system where Arts & Humanities are only taught & researched at Russell Groups?

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This is the face of a woman with a rubbish post-chemo immune system who is very relieved to have had her first Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccination today #VaccinesWork #AstraZenaca

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I finished sewing this caftan from a vintage pattern at the weekend - my first garment from scratch for 30 years. I would make a terrible @sewingbee contestant because if anybody gets near me while I’m sewing I yell “don’t talk to me!” #IMadeThis

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Just the kind of image that every woman wants to see when she's on a night out! Publicity for the Ripper & Co immersive horror bar in Southsea, which has been given an alcohol license

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@helenaverley Sadly many design courses no longer have design history modules

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The most successful people I've met: 1. Had a thirst for knowledge 2. Studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College 3. Rent a flat above a shop 4. Smoke some fags and play some pool 5. Dance and drink and screw. 6. Want to live like common people

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Very sad news about Laura Ashley calling in administrators. Such a shame that they haven’t used their rich archive to produce collections exploiting the current fad for ditsy prairie dresses. High street is full of poor imitations of the originals!

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Fantastic car boot find this morning: 1960s Jacqueline Andrews wooden house handbag. I love the wallpapered interior

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My segment in tonight’s #AHouseThroughTime was filmed at the Mill Owner’s House @BradfordMuseums Industrial Museum. I couldn’t have found a better location than to bring the story of Anne Dawson - factory girl made good - to life

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Absolutely disgusted that a “Ripper & Co” themed “classic cocktail horror bar & restaurant” is opening in #Southsea Violence against women shouldn’t be the subject of entertainment & hospitality @HallieRubenhold @StephenMorganMP @char_gerada @Steve__Pitt

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Students are in poverty in the pandemic, unable to do paid work, some even reliant on food banks, paying for rooms they can’t use, racking up debt, mental health suffering But Government decides the priority issue is free speech on campus, not supporting students in a crisis

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Today is my #cancerversary . 12 years since I was diagnosed with triple positive breast cancer: DCIS & invasive tumour. Mastectomy, AC chemo, Tamoxifen & Herceptin. Very grateful to the NHS, doctors & nurses who looked after me, my family & friends #StillHere

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Today is my cancerversary: 13 years. I owe my life to Dr Filzah Fuad, then a young GP intern in Loughborough, who took my concerns about persistent non-cyclical breast pain seriously (when others hadn’t previously) & sent me for a mammogram

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Creator of Peppa Pig, Mark Baker did Animation @UniCreativeArts . There have been cuts to the costs of running studios for courses like these & Govt says it wants fewer students to do them. Many are admitted after doing BTECS, also being cut The hypocrisy behind #PeppaPigGate

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The worst thing about #PeppaPigGate is the hypocrisy. The govt is cutting higher education funding for arts & creative subjects by an eye-watering 50% - an act of pure cultural vandalism. Less well off students will be denied the chance to study art, dance & music. Shameful.

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I had my first full-time permanent academic job in 1992 at a former poly & have spent most of my career in the sector. The joy of teaching creative subjects to students from working-class backgrounds/state schools/mature students, many felt they were given a 2nd chance 1/

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Rest in Peace Nanny Nora, 9 January 1925-1 April 1922. I have been truly blessed to have you in my life for so long. I’ll miss your laugh, your singing & your love. And I’m so pleased you got your hair done a week ago. Glamorous to the end x

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Who else’s mum called it a Continental Quilt? #InsideTheFactory

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@MarianKeyes @heidistephens Thank you for saying this. Sarah Harding has secondary breast cancer, which is currently incurable. No amount of fight, battle or positivity changes this. We need better drugs & more research. Please see the brilliant work being done by @abcdiagnosis & @METUPUKorg

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@suehodges61 People like me used to teach on design courses but design history has been scrapped for many or has very minimal provision

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Delighted to see A House Through Time shortlisted for best historical documentary in the Grierson Awards #AHouseThroughTime #GriersonAwards

The Grierson Trust

@griersontrust

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The shortlist for the 2020 #GriersonAwards in association with @all3media_int is here! 🏆 Congratulations to all the filmmakers on the list. See the docs that made the cut for each category and will go to our juries for consideration over the summer…

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RIP Terence Conran. He co-founded Habitat in 1964, which brought us pared down Scandinavian style ‘Good Design’, the continental quilt & the chicken brick. His books & restaurants were also hugely influential #TerenceConran

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My university shuts for Christmas today. I have never been more exhausted nor seen my academic spouse work harder. Our house has never been more untidy, our housework never more neglected. Working from home has been all-consuming & relentless

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I’m so looking forward to the 1921 census being released. It’s going to be a fascinating source for women & house history. Will we see more all-female households, widows & spinsters because of the losses of World War 1? #HouseHistoryHour #WomensLives @findmypast

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#Twitterstorians Please lend your support to the campaign to ensure that Debenhams’ archives are preserved. Records go back to C18 & include Oxford St HQ & branches that began as separate local companies. Please make statement of importance here:

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Solidarity to all those in HE (like me) potentially at risk of redundancy who are having to fill in a complicated spreadsheet against which they will be ‘scored’ for a job in a vacancy pool

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1st person in family to do A’levels let alone go to uni. From poor single parent household. Did Art History @EssexArtHistory despite not getting grades. Now professor, author, tv consultant/contributor. Don’t tell me people like me don’t deserve opportunities #LowValueDegree

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Many thanks to everybody who watched series 3 of #AHouseThroughTime . It’s been a privilege & a pleasure to be involved with all 3 series as consultant & contributor

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I am so proud to have been series consultant & appeared in #AHouseThroughTime Serious, quality, compelling tv. Proves you don't need celebrity presenters or to dumb down & that there's a huge audience for histories of everyday life. Thank you for watching!

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I miss getting dressed up for work. So I wore this glorious shocking pink vintage Lilli Ann coat to take the dog for a walk this morning to brighten up a grey drizzly day. I don’t look like this - it was accessorised with wellies!

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David Morris MP: Local satellites for local people. #Newsnight

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@NHSCOVID19app I got #NHSCOVID19app , entered my symptoms, it told me to self-isolate. I tested negative & can’t enter the results because I don’t have a code because I booked a NHS test outside of the app. So app still tells me to quarantine & I can’t turn it off. Worldbeating system alright 🤷‍♀️

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3 years

How about Oliver Dowden defends our culture & heritage from the imminent danger of closure, decline & redundancies due to the impact of the pandemic. Has he really got nothing better to do?

Christopher Hope📝

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Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has also summoned 25 of the UK's biggest heritage bodies and charities to a summit on Feb 23 where they will be told "to defend our culture and history from the noisy minority of activists constantly trying to do Britain down”.

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I’ve added my title. Only 24% of Professors in the UK are women. I bought a house recently. I had to repeatedly correct estate agents and the documents the solicitor drew up who assumed that I was Dr and my husband Prof #ImmodestWoman

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Important fact from @jessphillips on @BBCr4today : since Sarah Everard was reported missing last week 6 women & a little girl have been reported as being killed by men #femicide

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Apparently undertaking a PhD isn’t “work” so parents aren’t entitled to 30 hrs free childcare. This is an absolutely appalling decision that will disproportionately hit women and is a real barrier to equality & diversity in HE @EqualityinHE @ucu @SamGyimah

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This just in: Doing a PhD isn't considered by the UK courts as "work". You do not pass go, you do not get 30 hours of childcare. If doing a PhD and contributing to this country's knowledge economy isn't work, what the hell is it. Recreation?

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When you bring up your daughter to be a strong independent feminist & that’s how she turns out! She’s leaving home tomorrow for a gap year in London. She earns enough from sustainable clothing label she’s set up to support herself. I’ll miss her passion & arguments #EmptyNest

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What IKEA catalogue are you based on your year of birth? Mine looks uncannily like my house!

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Today my family of 4 will be reunited for the first time since May 2020 & it will also be the first time my kids (who live in different cities) have seen each other since then). I last saw my son in July & my daughter in November. I count my blessings that we’re all still here

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The beautiful Christmas Garland @nationaltrust @CoteheleNT

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5 yrs ago today I started as Associate Dean Research & Prof of Design History & Theory @UniPortCCI . I’ve supported colleagues to build research & steered Faculty through REF submission. Now I begin my 1st uni sabbatical in 29-yr career to write book on history of the kitchen

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Contributed to a tv series about the history of kitchen appliances today. So I wore a dress patterned with… you’ve guessed it, kitchen appliances

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I’ll be on @bbctwo on Monday at 9 pm with @DavidOlusoga in series 2 of A House ThroughTime. We have fascinating tales to tell in our new house in Newcastle #ahousethroughtime #newcastle #househistory #househistories

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Wonderful documentary @BBCFOUR by @DavidOlusoga Africa Turns the Page. Interesting article here about the very distinctive designs & illustrations of the covers of those orange paperback editions of the African Writers Editions

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40 years ago this October I became 1st person in my family to go to uni after being 1st to do A’levels, most of which I failed but was still still given place. I didn’t earn a graduate salary until 7 yrs later. No regrets. Uni gave me social & cultural capital. It changed my life

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10 years ago I was having cancer treatment & thought my academic career was over. This year has been extraordinary: professorial inaugural, Ideal Homes published & nominated for @TheSAHGB Medallion, A House Through Time & now elected Fellow of @RoyalHistSoc Thank you 2018!

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@manwhohasitall I’ve just realised that I don’t have a man on my decision-making panel tomorrow. Is he free?

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See inside the Newcastle home which stars in A House Through Time. @DavidOlusoga & I will be on @BBCTwo with series 2 soon!

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This has been doing the rounds on Facebook. Puerile & deeply satisfying, giving you your 2020 name. Mine’s Fuckrah Fuck Fuck. What’s yours?

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Fitted kitchens were not widespread in Britain until the 1960s. Many households would have had one of these freestanding kitchen cabinets invented by Hoosier in the US & popularised Easiwork in the UK in the 1920s #AHouseThroughTime

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Wow! Not a single person from a post-92 is good enough to be in the 2024 cohort of New Generation Thinkers announced by BBC and AHRC – UKRI ⁦ @UKRI_News ⁩ ⁦ @ahrcpress ⁩

2024 cohort of New Generation Thinkers announced by BBC and AHRC

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New to me cocktail tray. What could be more sophisticated than a pack of “menthol fresh” ciggies on a slice of bread, accompanied by a tin of pineapple in heavy syrup & some mini frankfurters?

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On this day 25 yrs ago @JamesRRyan took his PhD to the binders & we picked up our wedding cake from Patisserie Valerie in Soho. The next day this happened. That evening somebody said to me "I hope you realise how lucky you are". I do. The best husband, father & friend possible ♥️

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This episode of @BBCTwo #GardenersWorld is like a great big hug. I love the lockdown films made by viewers, especially the 3 sisters. So life affirming & heartwarming.

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Owner of Ripper & Co Dan Swan said the venue now plans to partner with a women's rights charity "to help raise awareness". This isn’t your carbon footprint, you can’t offset your misogyny!

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Why am I so exercised by the Ripper & Co immersive horror cocktail bar opening in Southsea? Zara Aleena Sarah Everard Sabina Nessa Bibaa Henry Nicole Smallman Julia James Gracie Spinks Bobbi-Anne McLeod #VAWG #StopCashingInOnMurder #SayTheirNames Images 2-4 @janesheps

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@BetteMidler @devorahshawa Here in the UK we have a wonderful scheme called Walk and Talk. My mum volunteers for it. Every week she accompanies a walk of older & disabled people, which ends in a cafe

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2010: 3 yrs post breast cancer dx facing several more ops; 2 kids at home; married 15 yrs; senior lecturer; book abandoned. 2019: empty nest; silver wedding; professor; book out. Most of all, grateful to still be here. Thanks to family, friends & consultant Phil Drew #2010vs2019

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My segment draws on my current research on the Government’s British Restaurants in #WorldWar2 Originally called communal feeding centres they were rebranded British Restaurants in 1940 by order of Winston Churchill who thought original name smacked of communism #AHouseThroughTime

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We are going out for an anniversary dinner. Despite what he thinks, Tenzing isn’t coming!

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When you come home from work & discover all your Ginger Rogers dreams have come true. Now I just need an occasion to wear it!

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Please join @DavidOlusoga & me this evening @BBCTwo at 9 pm for series 3 of A House Through Time #AHouseThroughTime And yes my skirt in this picture does depict a house like our new one in Bristol but you’ll have to wait until episode 3 to see it!

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Rozsika Parker’s Subversive Stitch book helped form me as an academic from when I 1st read it as UG in 1984. I’ve set readings from it to students for 25 yrs. It still has a huge impact 👇

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“I identified historical hierarchical division of the arts into fine arts and craft as a major force in the marginalisation of women's work.” Rozsika Parker, The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine #womensart1

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The world is so grim at the moment but my beautiful 97 year old Nanny Nora has had her hair done & it’s made her so happy! She lives in the moment these days so it’s an extra special joy to see this

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Solidarity to all those academics entering the Bank Holiday weekend (like me) wondering if they will still have a job in October

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Such bad news in the last few months about course closures & redundancies in post-92s. Let’s shout out about how brilliant they are & what we’re losing PhD in Cultural Studies, 1995 @UniofEastLondon #Post92Proud

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The Repair Shop is a gem. It’s about objects, their stories, people’s attachment to them & craft. Stuff us design historians have been writing about for years! The most moving show on TV: why we should all be watching The Repair Shop

The most moving show on TV: why we should all be watching The Repair Shop

The BBC show about fixing treasured heirlooms is the TV equivalent of sinking into a warm bath. It’s just what everyone needs right now

www.theguardian.com

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Who else has put the heating on?

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Getting ready for party tonight to celebrate silver wedding anniversary @JamesRRyan We met at Women's History Seminar @ihr_history when PhD students. 9 house moves & 2 kids later, just about to have an empty nest. We still read & comment on each other's work & have lots of fun!

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When I first visited 10 Guinea St last summer, I knew I just had to wear this skirt when I filmed there! #AHouseThroughTime #ASkirtThroughTime

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An appeal again for the media to pay attention to the plight of students unable to find jobs to support them. It’s not only students from the poorest background who work in term-time, most do because the maintenance loan is inadequate & parents often can’t afford to help much

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As well as being an illustrator, Edward Linley Sambourne was a keen photographer. He took a fascinating series of candid photos of shop girls on nearby Kensington High Street. These street photos give wonderful insights into everyday life & dress #AHouseThroughTime

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I should also add that I didn’t pay fees & had a full grant. No way I would have gone to uni without this because my mum’s fear of debt had been instilled in me. My success at uni encouraged my mum & sister, aunt & 2 cousins all to go as mature students

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Delighted that @TwentyTwentyTV @BBCTwo A House Through Time has won the @vlvuk Voice of the Viewer & Listener Award for Excellence in Broadcasting 2018 for Best TV News & Factual Programme. Sadly @DavidOlusoga couldn’t be with us to celebrate #vlvconf2019 #AHouseThroughTime #PSB

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The best news I could possibly hope for: my 95 year old Nanny Nora, residents & staff of her @TheAbbeyfield care home will receive the COVID-19 vaccine next week. I am so grateful to the staff for the wonderful care & love she has received & for keeping it free of Coronavirus 💗

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Thank you for watching! #AHouseThroughTime

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I feel for the students who will have their options taken away to study arts & creative subjects at a post-92. Often a crucial factor is that it’s in their community. We are excellent teachers & researchers , despite not being “top” unis 3/

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I dislike intensely the way #VEDay has been appropriated as a nationalistic Victory OVER Europe celebration, as if Britain won the war single-handed 1/

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My 96 yr-old Nanny Nora lives in a care home in Plymouth & hasn’t even been given a date for her Covid-19 vaccination yet. I’m going to post a picture of her every day in this thread until she gets her jab #VaccinateNannyNora 1/

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The number of widows rose sharply - from 642,311 in 1911 to more than 1.6m at the start of the 1920s. A striking statistic from the #1921census showing impact of WW1 at home 'Can you help us?' - secrets of 100-year-old census unearthed - BBC News

Census 1921 - 100-year-old secrets revealed

Digitised pages of the 1921 Census reveal glimpses of the lives of the 38 million people living in England and Wales a century ago.

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Who else would like to know more about the research process behind #AHouseThroughTime ?

Zoe Wheddon

@ZoeWheddon

3 years

@HouseHistorian @DavidOlusoga @DeborahSuggRyan @KatFeavers I would love to know more about that, I have always said I would love a sort of ‘extra slice’ type programme where we get to see more of the research journey behind the scenes.what could we call it?

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

2 months

When I think back to the optimism of 1992, I’m heartbroken it’s come to this 4/4

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

4 years

I always love a time warp house, especially a 1930s one

Unbelievable time warp house untouched since the 1930s goes on sale in Edinburgh

The Edwardian terraced house in Newington could be used as a museum, with its 1930s stove and original rugs.

www.edinburghlive.co.uk

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

4 years

Daughter says I should dye my hair pink. Tempted if it could look like this

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

6 years

I would, of course, be watching avidly even if I wasn't involved in the series. Blown away by @DavidOlusoga compelling and empathetic storytelling and the fantastic work of the other researchers & @TwentyTwentyTV team #AHousethroughTime

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

5 years

As you get more senior in academia you often find yourself as the only woman in meetings, panels & committees. It can be exhausting & demoralising & very lonely, especially when having to deal with mansplaining, “banter” & “jokes”. I clearly need a break

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

3 years

So exciting to see the culmination of our months of work onscreen. It’s been very challenging making the show in the pandemic. Many things held us up, including archives being shut as not all the records we need to access for house history are digitised #AHouseThroughTime

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

3 years

Months of working from home left me longing for colour when my interrupted house renovations resumed. A friend said my new bathroom looks like it should belong to Samantha from Bewitched. If only I could twitch my nose & the months of dust would disappear!

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

3 years

Here’s how to do a very effective public memorial - for Women’s Royal Naval Service @PortsmouthCath

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

11 months

Despite what owner Daniel Swan said on @BBCWomansHour looks like he’s not changing theme or branding of Ripper & Co bar in #Southsea . The use of a knife in logo is highly irresponsible as is @ParamountPics still taken from @GettyImages of Jack the Ripper stalking victim #VAWG

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

@DeborahSuggRyan

3 years

It’s perhaps less well known that Prince Philip had a keen interest in good design. He founded the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for Elegant Design in 1959. The first winner was Charles Longman's Prestcold Packaway refrigerator for the Pressed Steel Company #RIPPrincePhilip

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