Here are some initial findings from summary data on the landownership of the sites represented in the Open Spaces Society lantern slides: https://images.oss.org.uk/ at the Museum of English Rural Life. * For more on the project and the slides, go to: https://historyofpublicspace.uk/my-oss-fellowship-at-merl-2021/exhibition-of-open-spaces-society-lantern-slides-held-at-the-merl/
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My Open Spaces Society fellowship has come to its formal end, but I’m still working on some of the lines of research raised by the collection. We’re also still hoping to get the planned online exhibition of selected lantern slides up and
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As part of my Open Spaces Society fellowship for the Museum of English Rural Life, I hosted a symposium on open spaces, commons and trespass on 8 September 2021. We had a great range of papers, photography, poetry and campaigns highlighted. I’m
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Read my blog post for the Museum of English Rural Life on my Open Spaces Society fellowship: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2021/06/open-spaces-society-fellowship-2020-21-mapping-the-lantern-slides/
Wednesday 8 September 2021, 2pm-5pm , online Hosted by The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading The Open Spaces Society is Britain’s oldest national conservation body, founded in 1865 as the Commons Preservation Society. https://www.oss.org.uk/ The OSS collection at The
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I’m gathering together the main themes of the lantern slides in the OSS collection for the forthcoming exhibition. The boxes are organised by type of landscape, but this also lends to geographical regions too: Boxes A and B – mix of North
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I’ve now categorised and geo-located the majority of the c.1000 lantern slides in the Open Spaces Society collection at MERL. NB not all the slides are represented on this map because some can’t be geo-located Here are some statistics: Some headlines: Urban
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The Open Spaces Society have now uploaded their lantern slides images to their website: http://images.oss.org.uk/ You can purchase hi-resolution copies of the images from their website. I’m still working my way through them all, classifying them and geo-locating them. The images are
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The closest locations of the OSS lantern slides to where I live are Waddon Ponds and the ones marked ‘Wandle Mill’. The images are a bit vague, so I am still working out exactly from where they were taken. Wandle Mill was
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