We at Pue’s thought we would start a new Christmas tradition this year. The following gift ideas are not just things that historians would like, but also gifts that historians might like to give to others! Enjoy and feel free to add other ideas in the comments section.
1. Irish Film Institute, archival film DVD. Available online and in the shop. 2. Complete Wallander, Rocky Road to Dublin, Fire in Babylon, all available on Play.com. 3. Book stand. Comparable model available from Eason’s. 4. Replica London Olympic Games poster, from Next. 5. Rory’s story cubes. Also available as an iPhone app. 6. Napoleon’s head on a plate. National Gallery, London. Available from Article, Dublin.
7. iPad2, so we can dream…8. U2 Achtung Baby uber deluxe edition. 9. Reissue of Dierdre Madden’s All about home economics. 10. Jane Austen earrings (from recycled book pages) from Bookity on etsy.com. 11. Buy a piece of history. 1950s handbag, from the Flourescent Elephant. 12. The Civil Wars, new album. 13. Reaktion books ‘Animal‘ series, Owl. Histories of all your favourite beasts. 14. Fingerless gloves. For the unheated archive…15. Book weight.
16. Dublin 1911, ed. Catriona Crowe. Royal Irish Academy. A particularly nice kind of coffee table book. 17. Vintage book shaped locket. From Freshyfig on Etsy.com 18. Vintage style recipe cards. 19. The beast in Boston Harbor, print. From Alternate Histories on Etsy.com 20. New illustrated edition of E. H. Grombich’s classic. 21. Anatomical plate, National Gallery, London. 22. Toasting fork. 23. Seeds from the Irish Seed Savers Association. Grow your own Irish food history.
29 November 2011 at 11:20 |
I love that list. How about archival storage boxes, cotton conservation gloves and strings of lead weights, (See, for example, Conservation by Design at http://www.conservation-by-design.co.uk).
29 November 2011 at 13:36 |
Ida: thanks for the link! I was scouring the internet for some supplier of the strings of lead weights, but couldn’t find any. I may be buying myself a Christmas present. Those things are so handy and they never have one long enough at the library!
Juliana
30 November 2011 at 10:46 |
I keep meaning to get a copy of The Rocky Road to Dublin. Always usefule for class. The cheapest I could find is here: Rocky Road to Dublin @ €16.99
http://www.classical.ie/rocky-road-to-dublin-dvd-peter-lennon.html Irish Destiny @€14.99
http://www.classical.ie/irish-destiny-dvd-easter-rising-1916.html
2 December 2011 at 13:32 |
All About Home Economics brings back memories; what about ‘Exploring English 1′ also reissued, like ‘Soundings’ last year.
2 December 2011 at 20:59 |
Funny how no one reissues history textbooks [or maybe they do?]. It seems like an obvious demonstration of how much tone shapes wether history seems fresh or stale, biased or ‘neutral.’ And how much the present changes what we think of the past. A Cold War era history textbook is not exactly timeless. Of course the choices of texts for Exploring English 1 were very much of their time, but one artifact makes us nostalgic and the other is funny, embarrassing or boring. Makes you think they should be using more original texts for teaching school history!
Juliana
5 December 2011 at 08:02 |
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