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Kitchen Heirlooms

Abstract

Here we focus on more mundane household objects that we inherit from our relatives. Lots of us have wooden spoons, recipes, and kitchen utensils handed down across the generations. This film prompts us to think more closely about these things and what they can tell us about our families and their histories. By continuing to use them when we cook and prepare food, they bring us closer to relatives who used them. But they also tell wider stories of family lives shaped by migration, women’s work in the home, and the way one generation passes on expertise and traditions to the next through the memories and emotions they prompt. With Katie Barclay, Signe Ravn, Debbie Money, and Gloria Ford.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/94gp-5n38

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Authors

Joanne Begiato (Oxford Brookes University)
Lily Ford (Birkbeck University)
Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide)

Oxford Brookes departments

Department of History, Philosophy and Culture

Dates

Year: 2022

Funding

AHRC : Inheriting the Family: Emotions, History, and Heritage (AH/T003308/1)

GeoLocations

England

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Published by Oxford Brookes University

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