Contacted the National Archives to see how much it will cost to copy an article about the South Midland Division: disputed payments in respect of Blackberry Collection Scheme of 1918. Seems to be the [...]

Listening to the oral histories in the Imperial War Museum research rooms revealed a number of revelations. Primarily the rationing of sugar for jam-making through the Women’s Institute slowing the process with red tape, [...]

Left some Call for Recipes postcards in the Town Hall Information Centre and in the Library today. Afterward, following a correspondence from Judith about Blackberry picking on the way to Fowlmead Country Park, and [...]

On a tip from friends, Ewan and Chris, South London Botanical Institute have been in touch and amazingly they have a rubus (raspberry) specimen in their archive from Kingsdown found in 1907! Furthermore, SLBI’s [...]

Where did all the Blackberries go? Time to email local jam makers Wilkin & Sons Ltd.

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In researching the online Imperial War Museum Collections – have managed to find two short films around blackberrying titled Every Little Helps (from 4:20 into the film) and Blackberrying in Brentford. Produced in 1918 [...]

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With the scoping meeting approaching, the thickness of multi-narratives begins to form. The composition of stories traversing interior and exterior realms, all unified by a skyward perspective and contemporary reflection. Thoughts of vivifying a [...]

The day after Armistice Day. Rain. Entering into a gallery landscape of black gauze-like frames to a film work, Undead Sun by Jane and Louise Wilson at the Imperial War Museum the context of [...]