Wood and Tin
New experiment in my face-to-face talks. Using props like these two. A modern plywood plant press and a late Victorian tinplate vasculum (which I did a bit of paint DIY during the hot summer). The best bit is to allow the audience to feel these objects to understand what a planthunter carried or their local guides carried.
Following a question in my last Open Heritage Day event I am now investigating the clothes worn by the extreme female mountaineers of the 1930s who climbed more than 15,000 feet…