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Electric Irish Homes: Rural Electrification, Domestic Products and Irish Women in the 1950s and 1960s. Electric Irish Homes: Rural Electrification, Domestic Products and Irish Women in the 1950s and 1960s is a research project looking at the effects of rural electrification on rural Irish housewives and homes during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the importation, promotion, cultural context and significance of domestic electrical products and their meaning to a generation of rural housewives.

It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2016 to 2019, and includes the Kitchen Power exhibition in the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life and a forthcoming monograph. The Principal Investigator for the project is Dr. Sorcha O’Brien, a member of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London from 2012 to 2019. Sorcha is an Irish design historian who has previously worked on electrical technology and national identity in Ireland, and is the author of Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland. The Principal Investigator for the project is Dr. Sorcha O’Brien, a member of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London from 2012 to 2019. Sorcha is an Irish design historian who has previously worked on electrical technology and national identity in Ireland, and is the author of Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland. The Project Partner is the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, based in Castlebar, Co, Mayo, which showcases traditional Irish ways of life, including crafts and domestic life.

https://electricirishhomes.org

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Visualizing Abolition maps the suppression of the African slave trade by tracing nearly 31,000 records of correspondence exchanged between the British Foreign Office and British commissioners, ministers, naval officers, and representatives of foreign governments around the world over the course of the nineteenth century. It provides users with three resources. First, a database that lists the names of the senders, recipients, places of origin and destination, dates, as well as the subject of the letters when available. Second, essays exploring different topics related to the suppression of the traffic. Finally, a gallery of images that provides visual context for the information available on the website. These resources allow students and researchers to further understand the history of the suppression of the African slave trade and expand our knowledge of the largest coerced migration in history.

http://visualizingabolition.org

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