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Nicola Naismith
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Visual Artist and Researcher. AHRC PhD student University of Manchester. HE Lecturer. Consultancy, mentoring and training focused on the support and improvement of working conditions for creative practitioners. HEA & Clore Fellow. www.nicolanaismith.co.uk
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#OtD 17 Mar 1972 the Sexton & Everard shoe factory in Fakenham, Norfolk, England, was taken over by its women workers in protest at their dismissal. They began a work-in, making and selling accessories, and later started a cooperative that lasted 5 years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...
March 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Interesting programme on BBC Radio 4 just now - revisiting the call for 'Wages for Housework' discussing the origional movment and current debates. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Wages for Housework – then and now
Shahidha Bari with Emily Callaci, Rosie Campbell and Victoria Smith
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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New York, 1954 by posthumously celebrated street documentary photographer Vivian Maier #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a group of white women sitting on outdoor steps next to a tall building while looking at a newspaper, the women wear long a-line 1950s style skirts and blouses, to the top left a man in a uniform stands in the distance observing the women
February 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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So sad to read that David Lodge has died - I have read Nice Work (1988) many times, and just happen to be re-reading Therapy from 1995. Have always really loved the characters from these novels especially the combination of complexity and everydayness.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Photo of two books by David Lodge: Therapy and Nice Work
January 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM