{"id":1153,"date":"2012-06-28T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2012-06-28T13:01:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T12:01:39","slug":"rural-idylls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/2012\/06\/28\/rural-idylls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural idylls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may remember that a few months ago, we started work on the last uncatalogued section of the Donald Muggeridge Collection, comprising photographs of rural objects dating from 1933 to 1943. I am pleased to announce that the cataloguing and digitising of these negatives is now complete. The images and the supporting information are now accessible and searchable via the Special Collections website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Signpost in Norton Lindsay, Warwickshire<\/p><\/div>\n

As well as a keen interest in windmills, Donald Muggeridge<\/a> inherited his father’s passion for recording the subjects of a fast fading form of rural life. Following on from William B. Muggeridge<\/a>‘s photographs dating from the first decade of the twentieth century, these images record the rural landscape of pre-war Britain, which has now largely vanished. Accomodating objects from columbariums to stocks and lock-ups to whipping posts, these images offer a glimpse into a world which seems very distant to many of us in the modern day.<\/p>\n

I’d like to give a special thanks to Chris Ward and Mandy Green for cataloguing and scanning the negatives and completing work on the Muggeridge Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you would like any more information about this collection, please do contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n