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A Jar of Kisses and a Spoon of Honey
Hi! I’m Will Moran and I am currently the Creative Writing Intern at Winterbourne House and Garden, and a recent BA English and Creative Writing graduate from the University of Birmingham. This poem, ‘Evelyn’, is inspired by John Byam Liston Shaw’s portrait of Evelyn, aged twelve, with her pony Tom-Tit (a reproduction…
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Between the Covers
By Collections Officer, Henrietta Lockhart On 18 May we celebrate International Museums Day, and one of this year’s themes is “the power of community building through education”. Here at Winterbourne, education takes many forms, from Royal Horticultural Society courses to University of Birmingham internships. Our collections also provide a useful resource for academic departments. I…
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Winterbourne and the University Herbarium – some exciting early connections
University intern Hannah Clynes explores the history of the University Herbarium, which is now located at Winterbourne. During my 20-day internship as part of the University of Birmingham’s Experience Arts scheme, I had the opportunity to catalogue the historic documents of the University Herbarium, which was relocated to Winterbourne House in March 2021.…
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Archie Walker: a hidden LGBT story in the Nettlefold family tree
Archie Walker: a hidden LGBT story in the Nettlefold family tree February is LGBT History Month, so this seems the ideal time to explore the hidden story of a gay man in the Nettlefold family. Archie Walker was the son of John Nettlefold’s sister Lucy. A fragment of his diary for 1915, held at…
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Nancy Nettlefold – News From The Archive
“Have you any others like her?” There are some outstanding women represented in our archive collections. Nancy Nettlefold OBE is one of them. Lucy Frances Nettlefold, known as Nancy, was John Sutton Nettlefold’s niece. At 12 she became determined to study Law at Cambridge – an extraordinary ambition for a girl in 1903. In…
