Liz Wood

@worsted

Tired, archive-themed, occasionally falling over a cat.

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Liz Wood@worsted· 2d

The Modern Records Centre have a few online too at cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/ . It seems a definite choice to think 'I've seen the commemorative napkins you've done for the Cenotaph and pit disasters, I'd like one for my wedding too. Don't forget to include the battleship'.

Paper napkin souvenir of the Cenotaph in London (online at https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p21047coll3/id/1260/rec/19)

Paper napkin memorial to the Wharncliffe Woodmoor mining disaster near Barnsley, 1936 (online at https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/hew/id/633/rec/103)

Liz Wood@worsted· 10d

Face in the wall

Liz Wood@worsted· 12d

Here's a #NotMyCat in anticipation and general support

Tortoiseshell cat lying on grass, attempting to wash her upper back.

Liz Wood@worsted· 23d

Gloved hand holding bundle of disconcertingly furry wadding which has been wrapped in linen and bound with two rusty straps. Several decades of filth, rust and damp have given the mystery object a range of interesting colours.

Bundle of weird furry wadding, wrapped in linen and bound with two rusty straps. A tuft of fur of unknown levels of toxicity is peeping out of the middle.

Liz Wood@worsted· Jul 4

The Swaines left behind in Yorkshire for being too young or too female never made it to North America, leaving a family split across two continents Ann Swaine, Thomas' wife, died in 1809. Her West Yorkshire descendents were millworkers, put to work on successors of the machines smuggled by Pollard.

Late 19th or early 20th century photograph of a woman worker in a Bradford textile mill.

Liz Wood@worsted· Jul 4

Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, William Pollard looked to his old textile haunts in Yorkshire, & smuggled over a copy of Arkwright's spinning machine Pollard's attempt to kickstart a US industrial revolution through industrial espionage failed badly, despite an invite to George Washington...

Extract from the Gazette of the United States, 3 June 1789, reporting on William Pollard's ownership of 'a valuable spinning machine' and warning of risks of the actions of British spies against the industrial interests of the United States.

Transcript of letter to Thomas Jefferson from William Pollard, 26 June 1792. He refers to his spinning machine and his building of a small mill, and rather optimistically invites George Washington to visit.

The letter is included in the Founders Online database - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0127

Liz Wood@worsted· Jul 4

After serving as a printers' apprentice, "undeviating republican" John Swaine joined up with John Childs, lobbied Benjamin Franklin, and became the US government's first official printer He died aged just 31, in 1794, leaving all his property to his Yorkshire-based mother Ann and brother Thomas...

Obituary notice for John Swaine, printer, aged 31, from the Independent Gazetter, 22 November 1794. It describes him as possessing "a heart glowing with benevolence and genuine philanthropy; steady to every just principle, ... an undeviating republican and well wisher to the rights of man".

George Washington’s copy of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Acts of the First Congress, published by Childs & Swaine – it was sold by Christies for $9.8 million in 2012.

Liz Wood@worsted· Jul 4

When the Revolutionary Wars began, the Swaines and Pollards joined in - against the British government William Pollard joined the Philadelphia Light Horse and served on the Pennsylvania State Navy Board Thomas Swaine's teenage son John joined his local army regiment as a player of drums & fife...

Transcript of letter from William Pollard to Samuel Morris, Committee of Safety, Philadelphia, 23 July 1776, about supply of munitions to the Revolutionary army.

Part of revolutionary war record of John Swain / Swaine, a member of Capt. Carnahan's Company of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment of Foot, 1778.

Liz Wood@worsted· Jul 4

A surviving 1772-1774 letter book kept by William Pollard gives glimpses of the pre-revolution life of Thomas Swaine, homesteading in the Shades Valley, Pennsylvania (discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-A...) Tough farming, rows with servants, a stolen dog and selling watered down rum to neighbours...

Page from William Pollard's letter book, open at a letter to Thomas Swaine. The document is part of the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Advert from Pennsylvania Journal, 28 December 1774. It advertises an 8 dollar reward for the arrest of James Dugan, an Englishman who had worked for Thomas Swaine before doing a runner with his spaniel dog Ranger and some money.

Liz Wood@worsted· Jul 4

When Thomas Swaine landed in North America he was amongst Calderdale family-his wife's brother William Pollard was an established Philadelphia merchant, having arrived 9 years earlier Swaine had also brought indentured labourers with him from Yorkshire, including his sister and sister's husband...

Adverts from the 'Pennsylvania Gazette', 15 November 1764. One is for the ship 'Polly', master Peter Byrne, who can be contacted either at the London Coffee House or through William Pollard at his store in Front Street. The other is for goods sold by William Pollard, including 'a neat assortment of woollens', jewellery, buckles, spurs, smelling bottles and buttons.

Liz Wood@worsted· Jul 4

A July 4th 🧵 In 1772 Calderdale weaver Thomas Swaine set sail for a new life in North America. He was accompanied by his c.12 and 9 year old sons Sam and John, and brought with him textiles, mustard and crockery to sell His pregnant wife and the rest of his children were left in West Yorkshire...

Coloured engraving of 'An east prospective view of the City of Philadelphia', made in 1778. It looks towards the city across a sea filled with sailing vessels and what appears to be a floating windmill.

Advert put in the Pennsylvania Packet newspaper between 19 October and 9 November 1772 by John Ackroyd and Thomas Swaine, "just arrived in the Polly and Hannah, Capt. Smith, from Hull, with an assortment of goods suitable to the present and approaching season". The goods for sale include textiles (broadcloths, forest cloths, shalloons, calimancoes, durants, camblets and sundry other woollens and Manchester goods), flour of mustard in casks and cakes, and crockery.

Liz Wood@worsted· Jul 1

Less communal singing than there used to be...

Hugh Gaitskell's Shadow Cabinet on a conference platform, linking arms whilst singing Auld Lang Syne.

Liz Wood@worsted· Jun 27

#T20Sweep on tour

Liz Wood@worsted· Jun 15

Pinpointing part 9 as the point when whoever wrote these instructions finally gave up

Extract from assembly instructions for an easel, featuring the backstop (piece no.5), the batten (6), the baffle (7 and 8), and 'small pieces of wood' (9).

Liz Wood@worsted· May 25

Cyanotype colour changes in the sun (plus cat assistant)

Liz Wood@worsted· May 22

After nationalisation the National Coal Board was a huge owner of housing in Britain - c. 170,000 by the mid 1980s. Effectively state owned company villages across the coalfields. The NCB brochure for modernisation of Creswell Model Village in the 1970s is at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...