THE SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS: Merryweather’s Prognosticator and the Hand of Glory with Valerie Krips

How does an object move from the kitchen to the display case in a museum?  What makes one thing a valuable antique and another a piece of rubbish?  This talk looks at the ways in which objects move from one position to another by looking at two remarkable pieces in a museum at Whitby, the birthplace of Captain Cook.

Dr Valerie Krips is Associate Professor Emerita of the English Department of the University of Pittsburgh, and Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.  She has been a consultant to the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, Castle Howard in Yorkshire, and Shugborough in Staffordshire.  The author of The Presence of the Past: Memory, History and Childhood in Postwar Britain, she is completing a book on cultural memory.

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