A selection of my pictures from a very rainy Sunday morning on Dartmoor National Park, Devon county, UK. The pictures can hardly capture all the beauty, but we saw moorland, stony Tors, forests, wild ponies and old bridges in just a few hours. I would never have ventured out onto Dartmoor on my own as … Continue reading Dartmoor National Park
Hello everyone and greetings from Exeter! Last weekend I moved down to the South West of England, to start my two month work placement at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM). I’ve had the good fortune of amazing weather all week, my host is nice, and my work placement has gotten off to a slow but … Continue reading Welcome to Exeter!
I was determined to get one last look at Scotland before I head south for my next adventure in Exeter. Glasgow is a big dirty city, but it has some shining highlights, mostly the older bits which I like. But despite missed trains, crummy weather, and being short on cash, it was a nice weekend … Continue reading Glasgow Weekend
So, I won't divulge what my research visit was about until my dissertation is printed, but I quite enjoyed my few hours in the small town of Oakham. Its a 'classic English market town' according to the tourist brochure, and its been around for quite some time. I took a few pictures of the heritage … Continue reading Research visit to Oakham, Rutland County
It feels like summer! British summer anyway, which from what I’ve been told, equals about two weeks of great weather and a lot of rain. Don’t expect too much. In fact if any of you were following the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London this weekend, I heard the weather during the river pageant was … Continue reading Jubilee weekend in Wales
As the reverend concluded his echoing prayer of blessing for the Duke and Duchess on their one year wedding anniversary, I was looking at a stone with Charles Dickens' name on it, and reminiscing about my time there two years earlier. It has been over two years since I visited London, the first time being … Continue reading London Rewind
I guess it’s been about a month since I last updated. The first week or so of April I was still recovering from the chest infection, but it was a darn good excuse to stay in and rest, but also to get work done. We’re now fully into the dissertation period, and I have my … Continue reading Leicester, Oxford, London
I don’t know if I’ve already said this, but March has been one of the toughest months since I’ve been here. At the beginning of the month we were still in the early stages of group exhibition projects, summer internship placements were being decided, and the deadline for dissertation proposals was looming. I was thinking … Continue reading A new month, a new update, and welcome to Spring Break!
Once again, it has been awhile since I last wrote. I had just gotten back from Berlin, and had a few days off before new classes started. It had been a rough few weeks as I got the flu, was stuck in my room reading, and still jumped into a full on week of 9-5 … Continue reading A Victorian Education
Hello all, It appears that I have gotten a little behind! The past few weeks have been quite full, as you’ll figure out. When I last wrote, classes were about to start again, and we’ve covered all kinds of very practical things about taking care of objects in museums. We even visited an off-site museum … Continue reading Culture, History, Museums
History of a Life 