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a green landscape of rolling hill with a blue sky dotted with puffy white clouds

What is British about British Landscapes?

a brick building with a black door and red shutters. Foliage grows on the gutter. A gas lamp burns over the door of the building.

Time Traveling in London

the stern of a large ship with flags

The Expected and Unexpected Successes of I.K. Brunel

An open door containing rectangular ceramic glaze tests

Entering the World of Wedgwood through Interactive Displays

A four story, brown brick warehouse with large windows. Outside the building are signs advertising the Museum of London Docklands.

George Hibbert: Collector, Philanthropist … Slaveowner

A white modern house with gray trim surrounded by grass and trees.

Coming Home to Modern

A close up photograph of knit fabric with two inverse hearts visible in the patterning.

Knitting in Nottingham: Hands-on Experience with Historic Knitting Frames

Figure 1. Painting of emperor on back of rearing white horse.

Southern Trip Discoveries: An Addendum to a Past Post- Moravians Were Copyists Far and Wide

A poster with a white background reading, “KEEPING/ PRINT/ ALIVE.” The words “KEEPING” and “PRINT” are justified to the poster margins and are in printed in red ink. The “I” in “PRINT” is shown as an upside-down exclamation mark. Below the word “PRINT” is a red bar with five white stylized human skills. A thin blue line strikes through these skulls. Below this bar, the word “ALIVE,” also justified to the margins appears in blue letters with some red trim around it. Another red bar with 6 white skills and a thin blue line striking through it appears below “ALIVE.” Below this, in the lower left third of this poster is a blue circle with the words “HATCH/ SHOW/ PRINT/ NASHVILLE/ TENNESSEE” printed inside of it. A slightly larger blue circle frames this internal blue circle with the print. To the right of this circle are the words “SINCE/ 1879” with a left-pointing arrow separating the “SINCE” AND “1897.” (This arrow is pointing to the circle advertising Hatch Show Print to the left). Two parallel blue lines run across the bottom of the page forming a border of sorts, the upper of the two being thinner. Below these lines in tiny, tiny print is a line of copyright text.

“Preservation Through Production”: Lessons from Hatch Show Print and Dickinson Saltworks

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