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This study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took
place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science
have identified the genteel household as an important site for
scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of
important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source
material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and
print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of
early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It
considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of
knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as
one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that
knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of
domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated
practices that were integral to ‘Enlightenment’ enquiry. -- .
History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide
for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical
sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in
historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how
students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources
can make important, valuable and original contributions to history.
Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the
book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this
approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of
material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and
modern periods, this volume draws on examples from across the world
and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of
enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global
history. -- .
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's
intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of
hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many
women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and
demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the
development of ideas. Until now, it has been assumed that women's
intellectual opportunities were curtailed by their confinement in
the home. This book illuminates the household as a vibrant site of
intellectual thought and expression. Amidst the catalogue of
day-to-day news in women's letters are sections dedicated to the
discussion of books, plays and ideas. Through these personal
epistles, Women of letters offers a fresh interpretation of
intellectual life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth
centuries, one that champions the ephemeral and the fleeting in
order to rediscover women's lives and minds. This book is relevant
to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.
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The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university
students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education.
Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering
the curriculum, the positive benefits of 'active' and 'experiential
learning' are being recognised in universities at both a strategic
level and in daily teaching practice. As museum artefacts,
specimens and art works are used to evoke, provoke, and challenge
students' engagement with their subject, so transformational
learning can take place. This unique book presents the first
comprehensive exploration of 'object-based learning' as a pedagogy
for higher education in a broad context. An international group of
authors offer a spectrum of approaches at work in higher education
today. They explore contemporary principles and practice of
object-based learning in higher education, demonstrating the value
of using collections in this context and considering the
relationship between academic discipline and object-based learning
as a teaching strategy.
The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university
students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education.
Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering
the curriculum, the positive benefits of 'active' and 'experiential
learning' are being recognised in universities at both a strategic
level and in daily teaching practice. As museum artefacts,
specimens and art works are used to evoke, provoke, and challenge
students' engagement with their subject, so transformational
learning can take place. This unique book presents the first
comprehensive exploration of 'object-based learning' as a pedagogy
for higher education in a broad context. An international group of
authors offer a spectrum of approaches at work in higher education
today. They explore contemporary principles and practice of
object-based learning in higher education, demonstrating the value
of using collections in this context and considering the
relationship between academic discipline and object-based learning
as a teaching strategy.
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's
intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of
hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many
women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and
demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the
development of ideas. Until now, it has been assumed that women's
intellectual opportunities were curtailed by their confinement in
the home. This book illuminates the household as a vibrant site of
intellectual thought and expression. Amidst the catalogue of
day-to-day news in women's letters are sections dedicated to the
discussion of books, plays and ideas. Through these personal
epistles, Women of letters offers a fresh interpretation of
intellectual life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth
centuries, one that champions the ephemeral and the fleeting in
order to rediscover women's lives and minds. This book is relevant
to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.
-- .
What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and
how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? If we look
at the objects that we own, covet and which surround us in our
everyday culture, there is a clear connection between ideas about
gender and the material world. This book explores the material
culture of the past to shed light on historical experiences and
identities. Some essays focus on specific objects, such as an
eighteenth-century jug or a 20th powder puff, others on broader
material environments, such as the sixteenth-century guild or the
interior of a 20th century pub, while still others focus on the
paraphernalia associated with certain actions, such as
letter-writing or maintaining 18th century men's hair. Written by
scholars in a range of history-related disciplines, the essays in
this book offer exposes of current research methods and interests.
These demonstrate to students how a relationship between material
culture and gender is being addressed, while also revealing a
variety of intellectual approaches and topics.
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