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Free Thinking: Preserving our heritage

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From knitting patterns to greetings cards: Naomi Paxton looks at a series of UK archives

World Heritage Day on 18 April focuses attention on ancient monuments and sites, and the need to preserve archives. Naomi Paxton looks at what we learn from four UK collections.

A collection of knitting patterns held in Southampton, an archive of Victorian greeting cards in Manchester, information about music hall and pantomime pulled together in Kent and the National Archives holdings of boat maps come under the microscope in today's conversation. New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton's guests are Rachel Dickinson, Eleonora Gandolfi, Helen Brooks and Lucia Pereira Pardo. 

The research projects featured are:
Rachel Dickinson, Manchester Metropolitan University - Celebrations: Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards exploring a collection of 32,000 cards – from rude Victorian Valentines to a Russian doll like card with miniature cards.
Eleonora Gandolfi, University of Southampton - Reimagining Knitting: a community perspective  focusing on patterns and information contained in three collections assembled by Montse Stanley, Jane Waller and The Reverend Monsignor Richard Rutt known as "the Knitting Bishop" 
Helen Brooks, University of Kent - Beyond the Binary: performing gender then and now   
Lucia Pereira Pardo, National Archives who is working on The Prize Papers 

Producer: Paula McFarlane

You can find more conversations about New Research gathering into a playlist on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

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