Hello @chatarch! This short ‘presentation’ in linked tweets is a mini-investigation of my late grandmother’s collection of stolen airline cutlery and the life stories it might tell. @chatarch#pilgrimCHAT
@CHATArch It’s rare that I fly far enough to get a meal, and a very long time since it came with metal cutlery – I don’t fly Business Class, and my grandma certainly never did. The newest items in her collection probably date back at least 20 or 30 years @chatarch#pilgrimCHAT
Airline cutlery is a big business – Emirates Airline has more than 1.2 million items of cutlery for their First Class and Business Class meal services. Imagine the carbon footprint of those tons of steel, constantly in transit. @chatarch#pilgrimCHAT
Reading 'PEEPO!' as a WW2 material culture specialist: a thread. 1/12
Like me, PEEPO! first appeared in 1981, and is much loved by generations of tiny readers. It's a gentle story of a baby and the things he sees in and around his family home in wartime London. 2/12
The details of 1940s domestic life in Janet Ahlberg's illustrations are stunning: she used 'The Army and Navy Stores Catalogue, 1939-1940' as a reference for her richly populated interior scenes. 3/12