The fully wired home and the modern consumer
Portsmouth University PhD student, Alice Naylor, gives us an insight into the adoption of electricity into British homes between the 1930s and 1950s.
Colour and consumer durables in Good Housekeeping magazine
Portsmouth PhD student Alice Naylor used Good Housekeeping magazines to explore the idea of colour in consumer durables in the 1950s.
“What an Electric Mixer can do to make light work of your kitchen chores”
Portsmouth PhD student Alice Naylor takes a look at how food mixers and refrigerators were presented in Good Housekeeping magazine in the 1950s.
MoDA’s Ideal Homes revealed in the 1921 Census
Design Historian Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan tells us about how the 1921 Census has deepened her research into MoDA’s collections.
Housing in the Hendon area
Dr Jill Stewart's interest in local history stems from her work with students on the Public Health and Environmental Health courses at Middlesex. Hendon's varied housing types reveal much about social, design and architectural history in just a few streets.
A ‘micro-history’ of an ordinary home
We recently acquired a collection of leaflets and other ephemera related to the kitchen and home appliances. Collectively they provide a kind of ‘micro-history’ of domestic life in Britain in the 1950s and 60s. Doctoral student, Alice Naylor, tells us more…