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  • Screenshot from the drawings section of a patent document. Below Annie's name and the patent details are a side view of a skirt with the elevator device installed, and a close-up of the cords and plates that lift the hem of the skirt.
    Ideas
    Being ahead of the storm: emigration, invention and settler life
    by Nikki|22 August 2023
    In this first of a series of blog posts we're going to share some of our research relating to one Annie Williams. Annie held multiple patents for a skirt elevator (also known as a skirt lifter) that she invented. Here...
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  • Conferences, Publications
    ‘The Enemy has Many Faces’
    by Katja|12 May 2022
    Insects, Clothing Inventions and Colonial Legacies One of the topics we’ve been exploring at POP concerns how clothing inventions mediate/shape/reflect relations between humans and animals. Originally, what we had expected to find were designs for activities such as hunting, farming...
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  • Uncategorized
    Learning, Living & Feeling with BIG Data
    by POP|13 July 2020
    Click, Click, Click, Click. Cut and paste. Jump screens. Cut and paste. Scroll. Click, Click, Cut and paste. Scroll. Deep breath in. Jump screens. Scroll. Cut and paste. Exhale. Click, Click, Click, Click. [This post is by Kat and Claudia]...
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  • Methods
    POP data – where does it come from?
    by POP|10 July 2020
    "Writing is a movement of imagination. On the page we take our readers to places, often to situations where our research has led us, to things we have seen and people we have listened to." - Les Back This blog...
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