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Join Professor Kristin Bluemel, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, as she explores the work of eighteenth-century artist, writer, and naturalist Thomas Bewick. This talk will explore the ways in which Bewick\u2019s illustrations and the appeal of his work to children were fundamental in establishing nineteenth-century ideas of the rural. Famous for wood engraved books of natural history\u2014especially the two volume <\/span>A History of British Birds<\/span><\/a>\u2014Bewick won the hearts of children with his<\/span> tail-pieces (\u201ctale-pieces\u201d) <\/span><\/a>of rural life, which appeared in the white spaces at the ends of his book chapters. The talk will be accompanied by a short tour led by Curator of MERL Collections, Dr Ollie Douglas. <\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Bluemel\u2019s Leverhulme project <\/span><\/a>puts the rural back at the heart of our thinking about culture, and develops the emerging, interdisciplinary field of \u2018rural humanities\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bewick\u2019s work invites us to consider how people in the past cared for their natural and human heritage. It highlights the importance of creativity in shaping how we respond to a changing world.<\/span><\/p>\n

This event is a collaboration between CBCP and the Museum of English Rural Life. It will take place at the MERL. Registration is free and open to all, but spaces are limited. Please register here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Image:<\/em> Thomas Bewick vignette at the end of the introduction to \u201cThe Predatory Gulls\u201d section in A History of British Birds, Vol. II, Water Birds, first published 1804. Child readers would have noticed the lost hat, whose replacement will take more out of the damp traveller\u2019s pocket than any toll. This image is from the 1826 edition, p. 228.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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