'Life on canals': a Takeover Day exhibition
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Author
- Alison Hilton
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Published Date
- December 16, 2013
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<On Friday 22nd November, the Museum of English Rural Life worked with the Institute of Education and took part in Kids in Museums’ Takeover Day. Throughout the day we welcomed Year 5 and 6 students from Geoffrey Field Junior School, Reading, and invited them to explore artefacts in the collections that relate to canal life and become ‘mini-curators’ in the process. Armed with white curatorial gloves and pencils, students worked in small groups exploring objects and photographs, and selecting the ones that they would display in an exhibition on the subject of Life on Canals. They were even assigned the task of writing interpretation labels for them.
We’ve turned their work into an online exhibition…
‘Life on Canals’
Guest curated by the pupils of Geoffrey Field Junior School
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Author
- lottiewood
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Published Date
- February 19, 2026
“I am the farm worker going home at evening”: gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women’s Land Army
Library trainee Lottie Wood reflects on gender fluidity in the work of E. M. Barraud, and Barraud’s reflections on her time in the Women’s Land Army
