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Special Events at the Saffron Walden Museum
musical festival For full details of
events and tickets visit our website
www.saffronwaldenmuseum.org
Museum News
16th June: Wallace’s
Great Big Bake Off
Take part in
Wallace’s
baking
challenge to
raise money for
Saffron Walden
Museum
Society.
Visitors are
invited to enter
cakes into
our baking
competition in one of three categories;
children’s, cakes inspired by the
Museum’s collections, or cakes baked
using a local or historical recipe.
There will be craft activities in the
museum making sock doughnuts from
10 – 12, sessions last 30 minutes and
cost £1.50 per child.
Fete de la Musique
Sunday 24th June, 12:00 - 8:00pm
The museum will be a venue for this
The museum could not operate
without the dedication and
commitment of our valued volunteers.
We will be hosting a Volunteers’ Tea
Party, at Saffron Walden Museum,
on Monday 11th June, from 1.30
to 5.00pm, with special guest:
Dawn French, the Chief Executive at
Uttlesford District Council, who will be
coming to meet and thank Museum
volunteers. If you would like to learn
more about Volunteering opportunities
on the Welcome Desk at the Museum,
do come along too; please let us
know whether or not you will be able
to join us, 01799 510333 or email
[email protected]
entitled ‘The Slaves’ Address to British
Ladies’, appealing to mothers in Britain
to oppose slavery.
The reticule was made in the 1820s
by a female campaign group to raise
funds and awareness for the anti-slavery
movement. Although Britain offi cially
ended its participation in the slave trade
in 1807, slavery continued in the British
Empire. In the early 1820s, a group of
women in West Bromwich formed an
anti-slavery group, called the Female
Society for Birmingham. Other groups
quickly formed and by 1831, there were
73 female organisations campaigning for
the abolition of slavery.
Many of these groups produced bags,
jewellery, prints and pin cushions,
decorated with abolitionist images and
text, which were sold or distributed as
part of their campaigns. Silk reticules
were fi lled with campaign pamphlets
and newspaper cuttings and distributed
to prominent people, including King
George IV and Princess Victoria, and
other anti-slavery groups.
Last year, our Collections Offi cer, Leah
Mellors, acquired funding to carry out
conservation work on the reticule, which
was in poor condition and could not be
handled or displayed. With funding from
the Daphne Bullard Award, the Saffron
Walden Quaker Meeting and local
individuals, the museum paid a textiles
conservator to clean, reshape and add
support to the reticule. It can now be
carefully handled and displayed in the
museum.
How to fi nd and contact us:
Saffron Walden Museum, Museum
Street, Saffron Walden CB10 1JL
Phone Number: 01799 510333
Email: [email protected]
www.saffronwaldenmuseum.org
Object of the Month
June’s Object of
the Month is a silk
reticule, made in the
1820s to support the
campaign to abolish
slavery.
The reticule is made
from unlined lilac silk with a drawstring
opening. On one side, there is the
image of an enslaved man with his two
children. On the reverse, there is a poem
Introducing Owlfred!
Owlfred Flyer is learning to
Fly, can you help him?
He has landed somewhere in
this magazine, please help by
fi nding him.
Just for fun!
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