Podcast appearances and mentions of helen antrobus

Join Jenny, Kloe and Liz as they explore historic houses across the world, their unique charms, and quirky challenges. Phedra whisks us away to a sun-soaked historic house museum in Cyprus, while Liz delves into the meticulous conservation efforts at Sir John Soane's Museum with Jane Wilkinson. Finally, Kloe has a chat with Helen Antrobus about what it's like working in the National Trust. 00:00:28 What's a historic house? 00:03:18 Are all of them posh? 00:07:03 Nature and heritage in harmony 00:09:30 Our favourites 00:16:30 Jenny feels like an alien 00:23:14 Mitigating damage 00:24:56 Houses still in use 00:31:12 Challenges and temptations 00:37:21 What era are we interpreting or preserving? 00:40:57 Pests and damp patches 00:44:28 Patreon shout out 00:45:00 Interview with Jane Wilkinson 00:56:00 Phedra's visit to Lefkara 01:07:17 Interview with Helen Antrobus Show Notes: - National Trust: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ - NT annual report Jenny quoted: https://documents.nationaltrust.org.uk/story/annual-report-2023/page/1 - Historic Houses (UK): https://www.historichouses.org/ - Rembrandt House, Amsterdam: https://www.rembrandthuis.nl/en/ - Kettles Yard, Cambridge: https://www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk/history-of-kettles-yard/ - Pollok House, Glasgow: https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/pollok-house-major-refurbishment - FAI or the National Trust for Italy: https://fai-international.org/ - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: https://www.gardnermuseum.org/ - Gawthorpe Hall, Ightenhill: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/liverpool-lancashire/gawthorpe-hall - Chatsworth, Bakewell: https://www.chatsworth.org/ - Yin Yu Tang at Peabody Essex Museum: https://www.pem.org/yin-yu-tang-a-chinese-home - St Fagans National Museum of History in Wales: https://museum.wales/stfagans/ - Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, in England: https://www.beamish.org.uk/ - Museo Horne: https://www.museohorne.it/en/ - Holker Hall in Cumbria: https://www.holker.co.uk/ - West Dean College: https://www.westdean.ac.uk/ - Barnes foundation move in Philadelphia: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/arts/design/judge-rules-the-barnes-can-move-to-philadelphia.html - S10E04 Halloween special with haunted properties: https://thecword.show/2021/10/28/s10e04-halloween-special/ - Old World Wisconsin: https://oldworldwisconsin.wisconsinhistory.org/ - Sir John Soane's Museum: https://www.soane.org/ - The book mentioned by Liz: https://shop.soane.org/collections/books-and-maps/products/a-complete-description-of-sir-john-soanes-museum-24 - The Local Museum of Traditional Embroidery and Silversmith-work, Lefkara (for the virtual tour!): https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/local-museum-traditional-embroidery-and-silversmith-work-lefkara - S10E02 Working with Curators: https://thecword.show/2021/09/29/s10e02-working-with-curators/ - Visiting the National Trust conservation studios: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/search?type=place&query=conservation - Hidden Treasures of the National Trust on the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lttx Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Liz Hébert, Kloe Rumsey, and Jenny Mathiasson. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2024.

Beatrix Potter was a woman of many talents and with Drawn To Nature, a new exhibition dedicated to her life and work, opening this weekend at the V&A, Hannah got on the Zoom with Helen Antrobus, one of its curators, to find out more. Jen's chatting to Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, creators, editors and contributors to Anonymous Sex, a new collection of erotic fiction. In Jenny Off The Blocks, there's more Winter Olympics, and Mickey's got her best velour tracksuit on for this week's Rated or Dated, 1997's Donnie Brasco. And in BT, we're asking when criticism of a woman is and isn't sexist, and what exactly we're levelling up to. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're joined by special guest host Helen Antrobus as we unpack what it means to be a collections curator and how we can (and do) work together to deliver some amazing things. Tune in for discussions around job titles, working with community curators, and why we should pay for expertise. 01:39 What even is a curator? 14:34 Our experiences of working with curators 23:23 Can we change attitudes to curation? 31:16 Community curation and collaborations 38:48 The curator-conservator symbiosis 44:59 Helen's path to curatorhood 50:59 How we can help one another Show Notes: - S07E04 Working with Techs: https://thecword.show/2020/05/27/s07e04-working-with-techs/ - S09E01 Working with Front of House: https://thecword.show/2021/03/24/s09e01-working-with-front-of-house/ - S03E01 Taking a Stand: https://thecword.show/2018/03/21/s03e01-taking-a-stand/ - Follow Helen Antrobus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/helenantrobus - Lexico definition: https://www.lexico.com/definition/curator - Tate definition: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/curator - Macmillan definition: https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/curator - Cambridge definition: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/curator - Wikipedia definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curator - #AskACurator Day: https://twitter.com/askacurator - S05E06 Touchy Feely: https://thecword.show/2019/05/29/s05e06-touchy-feely/ - Salford Museum & Art Gallery: https://salfordmuseum.com/ - People's History Museum: https://phm.org.uk/ - The Royal Oak Conservation Studio: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-royal-oak-foundation-conservation-studio Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Helen Antrobus. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2021.

Helen Antrobus joins us to talk all about women and revolt, and how they've used fashion to their advantage throughout the ages. 

The closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2-day conference, jointly convened by the National Trust and the University of Oxford, which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019 at St Hugh’s College in Oxford. The conference brought together professionals from across the academic and heritage sectors to reflect on programming around the 2018 centenary of the Representation of the People Act which granted some women the right to vote and to look to the future of researching and programming women’s histories. The conference featured papers from a range of heritage, cultural and academic institutions who marked the centenary anniversary. Many of the programmes, exhibitions and events that responded to the centenary not only explored the stories of 100 years ago but openly questioned the representation of women’s lives in the histories inherited by curators and researchers, and experienced in public life, today. This film captures the closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. Speakers: Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust For more information about the Women and Power conference and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership

In this final episode, Helen Antrobus reflects on the activists of a century ago and compares this to activists fighting today. She asks how far have we come in 100 years and how far do we still have to go? Helen questions what it means to be a feminist today and explores the popularity of items such as t-shirts made by the Fawcett Society emblazoned with the phrase, ‘This is what a feminist looks like’. Helen explores contemporary campaigns such as the campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, that would allow the government of Ireland to legislate for abortion – a campaign that unfolded as the Represent! Voices 100 Years On exhibition was being installed. Finally, she signs off the series with the words from a placard carried during the Women’s March Manchester 2017, ‘From the City of Pankhurst with Love’.

The fifth episode looks at the role of the media in representing and misrepresenting individuals and communities. Historically the suffrage campaigners understood the role of media in raising the profile of their campaigns. In this episode, Helen Antrobus examines both pro and anti-women’s suffrage cartoons and newspapers and reflects on the tragic death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davidson, who died as she was struck by the King’s horse at Epsom Derby. Helen also looks at recent campaigns including the 2018 Legally Black poster campaign, which showed black people in major cinematic roles, to support the fight for better black representation in the media.

In this fourth episode, Helen Antrobus reflects on the legacy of the Suffragettes who broke the law in protest at women being denied the right to vote. In particular, she explores the experiences of working-class suffragette, Selina Martin, whose hunger strike medal and personal letters are displayed in Represent! Helen also explores objects from recent protests, including a ‘Time’s Up Theresa’ jumpsuit worn by a member of Sisters Uncut during their 2018 BAFTA’s protest and an armband worn a symbol, of solidarity with hunger strikers at the Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre. The episode closes with the question ‘if the law is wrong should you break it?’

In this first episode, Helen Antrobus examines the importance of the Representation of the People Act (1918) in the history of British democracy and the fight for equality. In this bumper episode, PHM Conservator Kloe Rumsey joins Helen as they uncover the stories behind amazing objects on display in the Represent! Voices 100 Years On exhibition including the 1908 Manchester suffragette banner, a 1906 Labour Party photograph and a 1926 Margaret Ashton portrait.

With Antonia Quirke In a year when we've seen yet more bio-pics about Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria, The Film Programme decided to do something about and find some subjects that are also suitable for the movie treatment. They put out a call to historians and history buffs for some serious alternatives. The candidates have ranged from the queen who was behind the Gunpowder Plot to an African American bare knuckle boxer who tried to take the British title at the start of the 19th century. And in this week's edition, those pitches are heard by a panel of industry insiders - BFI Senior Production Executive Lizzie Francke, Head Of Creative at Film 4 Ollie Madden and development consultant Rowan Woods. Find out what they would green-light in this concluding part of Pitch Battle. They hear pitches from historians Tracy Borman, Kate Williams, Helen Antrobus, and Stephen Bourne, writers Jack Bernhardt and Greg Jenner, and listener Gerard Corvin.

Curator and suffrage historian Helen Antrobus discusses cities, protest, and social change. We talk about how urban design impacts on social movements and Helen explains why Manchester is the most radical city in the world.

Join us and our guest host Jenny van Enckevort for an episode about suffragettes, social history, political collections, and tricky object stories. Also tune in for an interview with Helen Antrobus about radical exhibitions and curating at The People's History Museum. Plus our agony aunt Jane answers a question about frames, and Kloe reviews the first volume of ‘Feminism and Museums.' 00:01:13 Politics in museums? 00:02:58 Queer Britain museum announced 00:04:28 Suffragettes and women's rights exhibitions 00:05:31 Social history is sexy 00:10:26 Vandalism and graffiti in response to exhibitions 00:15:23 Can we say no to objects that offend us? 00:20:41 Contemporary collecting and difficult topics 00:23:38 Conserving ephemera: protest signs, social media photos, and banners 00:29:40 Parallels between ethnography and political collections 00:33:44 Are object stories important to conservation? 00:41:52 Unions and Museums Are Not Neutral 00:43:14 Jenny's can of worms 00:45:21 Contentious objects and how to display them 00:47:21 Interview with Helen Antrobus 01:01:25 Dear Jane 01:08:00 Review: Feminism and Museums 01:12:50 Comments, questions, and corrections: peripheral job markets 01:16:14 Patreon shout out! Show Notes: - New LGBTQ+ museum announced: https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/07032018-plans-announced-to-create-uk-first-lgbtq-museum - Represent exhibition opening this summer: http://www.phm.org.uk/news/represent-voices-100-years-on/ - A selection of suffragette exhibitions: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/jan/31/centenary-votes-for-women-anniversary-events-parades-exhibitions-suffragette-pankhurst - Rape victims' clothing on display at Belgian exhibition: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42633751 - UCU strike background: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/mar/13/striking-university-staff-irate-over-pensions-deal-ucu - BP sponsorship row: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/28/bp-sponsorship-arts-organisations-british-museum-national-portrait-gallery - BAE sponsorship row: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43324069 - Museum Detox: https://museumdetox.wordpress.com/ - People's History Museum: http://www.phm.org.uk/ - Feminism and Museums Vol 1: https://museumsetc.com/products/feminism-and-museums Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Jenny van Enckevort. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Additional sound effects and music by Calum Robertson. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2018.

With Francine Stock Director Paul Thomas Anderson discusses Phantom Thread, Daniel Day Lewis' farewell to the film industry. There's another episode of Pitch Battle, in which historians nominate a suitable candidate for the movie treatment, a historical figure who has not yet been the subject of bio-pic. This week Helen Antrobus champions Ellen Wilkinson, the five foot "mighty atom" who led the Jarrow March. Anna Smith explains why she's spent the last twenty five years watching Groundhog Day over and over again. Perfume expert Dariush Alavi examines one of the few films to have been named after a scent, Black Narcissus, and explains what the movie smells like to him.

The actress Maxine Peake nominates her working class hero, Ellen Wilkinson, as a great life. Ellen is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of British radical left politics. She joined the Communist party, met Lenin and Trotsky in Moscow and then went on to become one of the Labour Party's youngest people entering parliament in 1924. For Maxine Peake, the tragedy is that Ellen Wilkinson is now virtually a forgotten figure despite her remarkable achievements. With help from historian Helen Antrobus from the People's History Museum in Manchester, they make the case for Ellen Wilkinson meriting the description of a great life. The presenter is Matthew Parris and the producer is Perminder Khatkar.

Clare Balding marks the eightieth anniversary of the Jarrow crusade, when two hundred men walked from Tyneside to London to petition the British government to bring back industry to their town. The the closure of the main employer, Palmer's shipyard. in 1934 had led to most of the population of Jarrow being plunged into poverty.Clare has three companions on this walk ; Robert Colls, professor of Cultural History at de Montfort university who explains the role marching has played in modern politics , Helen Antrobus from the People Museum in Manchester , who tells the story of the one woman allowed on the march, the indomitable local MP, Ellen Wilkinson and local walker Margaret Laurenson, who devised the route they take. in the programme we also hear archive recording of one of the marchers talking about the overwhelming reception they received in the mainly Tory town of Harrogate. Producer: Lucy Lunt.