Dinah Winch
@dinahw.bsky.social
Curator, historian, collector of stuff, pots, stories, museums, buildings.
Back at the Proms for an exciting programme: Varese's Intégrales, a world permiere of
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
August 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Back at the Proms for an exciting programme: Varese's Intégrales, a world permiere of
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Before we fall (Cello Concerto), Bolero, as fresh as the first time I heard it (it makes such a difference to see the instruments), and Rite of Spring.
1 June walk, felt like summer.
June 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
1 June walk, felt like summer.
I caught the Tirzah Garwood show at Dulwich Picture Gallery which closes next weekend - as well as paintings, prints, embroidery & a patchwork quilt, there is a fabulous group of marbled papers that she made in the 30s & sold commercially for book binders, and interior design uses like lampshades.
May 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I caught the Tirzah Garwood show at Dulwich Picture Gallery which closes next weekend - as well as paintings, prints, embroidery & a patchwork quilt, there is a fabulous group of marbled papers that she made in the 30s & sold commercially for book binders, and interior design uses like lampshades.
I had never heard of Brady Clubs until I saw the fascinating film One Pair of Eyes in which Georgia Brown goes back to Whitechapel where she grew up. An exhibition of photographs, rescued from a skip, is now at Tower Hamlets archive www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00t3mkz
May 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had never heard of Brady Clubs until I saw the fascinating film One Pair of Eyes in which Georgia Brown goes back to Whitechapel where she grew up. An exhibition of photographs, rescued from a skip, is now at Tower Hamlets archive www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00t3mkz
Lovely delivery this morning, essays in honour of Bernard Capp, my D.Phil external examiner. Looking forward to reading it @angelamcshane.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Lovely delivery this morning, essays in honour of Bernard Capp, my D.Phil external examiner. Looking forward to reading it @angelamcshane.bsky.social
Being a museum person I was trying to get a shot of the base but you see it says 'salt' on the back. I have one very similar in my own collection made at the same pottery (Wetheriggs in Cumbria).
March 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Being a museum person I was trying to get a shot of the base but you see it says 'salt' on the back. I have one very similar in my own collection made at the same pottery (Wetheriggs in Cumbria).
Daughter's offer holders day at Reading on Saturday gave me the opportunity to visit the @themerl.bsky.social. I expected lots of great agricultural macinery, but not a lovely display of country & studio pottery.
March 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Daughter's offer holders day at Reading on Saturday gave me the opportunity to visit the @themerl.bsky.social. I expected lots of great agricultural macinery, but not a lovely display of country & studio pottery.
The extraordinary synagogue at the back of 19 Princelet St, Spitalfields. The house is 1718/19, the synagogue built on the garden for Polish & Russian Jews in around 1862, so before the pogroms of the 1880s. Then abandoned by the community just over 100 years later.
March 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The extraordinary synagogue at the back of 19 Princelet St, Spitalfields. The house is 1718/19, the synagogue built on the garden for Polish & Russian Jews in around 1862, so before the pogroms of the 1880s. Then abandoned by the community just over 100 years later.
I've been going to Collect since it began & one of the joys is discovering new makers. This year's completely-new-to-me is textile artist Manya Goldman, originally from South Africa, who has returned to making after a long break, with these exquisite embroideries
March 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I've been going to Collect since it began & one of the joys is discovering new makers. This year's completely-new-to-me is textile artist Manya Goldman, originally from South Africa, who has returned to making after a long break, with these exquisite embroideries
Just some of my favourite pots at Collect Art Fair at Somerset House, which closes today. Steve Dixon, Emilie Taylor, Evelyn Albrow and Philip Eglin.
March 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Just some of my favourite pots at Collect Art Fair at Somerset House, which closes today. Steve Dixon, Emilie Taylor, Evelyn Albrow and Philip Eglin.
The Whitechapel is a funny mixture of old and new.
February 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Whitechapel is a funny mixture of old and new.
Frosty walk this morning, very clear apart from mist hovering around the Medway.
January 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Frosty walk this morning, very clear apart from mist hovering around the Medway.
I was reunited with this plate yesterday. It was always on a shelf in my Granny's house & she had given it to one of her neices when she opened a cafe & now its come back to me. It's 'Venison' from Wedgwood 'Banquet' series, that was originally produced on a set of tiles, then tableware.
December 18, 2024 at 7:43 AM
I was reunited with this plate yesterday. It was always on a shelf in my Granny's house & she had given it to one of her neices when she opened a cafe & now its come back to me. It's 'Venison' from Wedgwood 'Banquet' series, that was originally produced on a set of tiles, then tableware.
The BGs also marked the beginning of the V&A's engagement with the African diaspora in its historical collections (prints/photographs by Black artists had been collected for a while). Whether the origins of material like the ivory of Raper's portrait, the economics of slavery, the representations of
November 29, 2024 at 5:32 PM
The BGs also marked the beginning of the V&A's engagement with the African diaspora in its historical collections (prints/photographs by Black artists had been collected for a while). Whether the origins of material like the ivory of Raper's portrait, the economics of slavery, the representations of
alongside this ivory by the Huguenot David Le Marchand of Matthew Raper. I remember meeting both Vincent Caretta & John Gilmore to talk about the Williams Portrait to try & make more sense of it because accepting that it was a caricature felt inadequate.
November 29, 2024 at 5:32 PM
alongside this ivory by the Huguenot David Le Marchand of Matthew Raper. I remember meeting both Vincent Caretta & John Gilmore to talk about the Williams Portrait to try & make more sense of it because accepting that it was a caricature felt inadequate.
Turns out my son is an amateur historian! He too locks himself away in his 'home office' to play strategy games. Weird, as he's always been adamant that he hates history..
Thanks Gregg Wallace (Telegraph, 'My Saturday')
Thanks Gregg Wallace (Telegraph, 'My Saturday')
November 29, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Turns out my son is an amateur historian! He too locks himself away in his 'home office' to play strategy games. Weird, as he's always been adamant that he hates history..
Thanks Gregg Wallace (Telegraph, 'My Saturday')
Thanks Gregg Wallace (Telegraph, 'My Saturday')
Remarkable day at the V&A as international scholars & curators explored The V&A & its Jewish Heritage. Just as 1/4 of a century ago when we explored the African diaspora in the V&A, objects that were collected not for their Jewishness reveal so much about the experience of Jewish people & culture.
November 28, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Remarkable day at the V&A as international scholars & curators explored The V&A & its Jewish Heritage. Just as 1/4 of a century ago when we explored the African diaspora in the V&A, objects that were collected not for their Jewishness reveal so much about the experience of Jewish people & culture.
Progress! Sign of a good day.
November 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Progress! Sign of a good day.
The jacket is currently off display, but don't let that stop you visiting the V&A British Galleries - 24 yrs old, I think they're still looking good?
November 27, 2024 at 8:22 AM
The jacket is currently off display, but don't let that stop you visiting the V&A British Galleries - 24 yrs old, I think they're still looking good?
More cake, on my Granny's cake stand. Daughter is 18 tomorrow. Candles etc to be added.
Around 18 years ago, about now, I was in labour & attempting to eat baked beans on toast (eat! they said, sleep! they said. I had no success with either).
Around 18 years ago, about now, I was in labour & attempting to eat baked beans on toast (eat! they said, sleep! they said. I had no success with either).
November 24, 2024 at 4:47 PM
More cake, on my Granny's cake stand. Daughter is 18 tomorrow. Candles etc to be added.
Around 18 years ago, about now, I was in labour & attempting to eat baked beans on toast (eat! they said, sleep! they said. I had no success with either).
Around 18 years ago, about now, I was in labour & attempting to eat baked beans on toast (eat! they said, sleep! they said. I had no success with either).
Starting my day with a slosh of brandy. I made the cake last night but it was too hot & too late to put it away, but its going in the tin now.
November 24, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Starting my day with a slosh of brandy. I made the cake last night but it was too hot & too late to put it away, but its going in the tin now.
I love Christmas food & vintage cookbooks so Visions of Sugarplums is now on my secondhand book search list & some ideas for presents here too.
November 23, 2024 at 5:41 PM
I love Christmas food & vintage cookbooks so Visions of Sugarplums is now on my secondhand book search list & some ideas for presents here too.
My gp practice has just merged with another & has a new website. I can guarantee that this is not the new team.
November 23, 2024 at 9:16 AM
My gp practice has just merged with another & has a new website. I can guarantee that this is not the new team.
When they outgrew Creechurch Lane they built Bevis Marks, opened in 1701, just around the corner, modelled partly on the synagogue in Amsterdam.
November 22, 2024 at 3:15 PM
When they outgrew Creechurch Lane they built Bevis Marks, opened in 1701, just around the corner, modelled partly on the synagogue in Amsterdam.