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The Pulse Glass - And the beat of other hearts (Hardcover)
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The Pulse Glass - And the beat of other hearts (Hardcover)
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A personal and global history in objects, Gillian Tindall traces
the memories and meanings that accrue to the artefacts of human
lives through time. Before ordinary doctors had access to accurate
pocket watches, they timed a patient's pulse with a 30-second
sandglass. A 'pulse glass' was a functional piece of medical
equipment, designed to measure a life, never intended to survive
for centuries. But Gillian Tindall inherited her
great-great-grandfather's pulse glass, which holds the heartbeats
of many by-gone generations and offers a portal to
nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish life, to her grandmother's marriage
and the assorted fates of the next generation. Most of the objects
that surround us, no matter how important in their time, will
eventually be lost and forgotten. But a select few, for reasons of
sentiment and chance, conservation and simple inaction, escape
destruction and gain new meanings. A toy train, a stack of letters
from long ago, a battered ivory figure. Each tells a different
story: the destiny of local railways, travel across the world and
village anecdotes, the value of what we inherit and the necessity
of forgetting. The Pulse Glass is an exploration of changing and
expanding messages in objects that survive us. Tindall brings her
signature eye for domestic history to bear on the physical remnants
of lives lost, recent and ancient, unearthing stories and
considering the nature of permanence. This is an elegant and
clear-eyed reflection on memory from one of our best history
writers.
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