Research

Thanks to the amazing Gardens Trust a summary of my four year research surrounding botanist and mountain climber Miss Stafford can be found at their new history hub. Miss Dora Stafford – The Gardens Trust

As a researcher I sometimes get ambushed by voices from the past. This happened to me on my visit to the Mass Observation papers at the Keep archive in Sussex. This is part of research for an exhibition for the Royal College of Physicians. Thanks to anonymous observers I heard 1940s vocal working-class opinions about…