Singing lacemakers
2 November 2017
Hertford historian David Hopkin is working on a new TORCH project ‘Tellings: Reconstructing the Repertoire of Songs used in English Lace Schools’. The project will end with a performance at the Museum of Rural Life in Reading. David writes:
we aim to resurrect the experience of a lace school, and restore voices to the tens of thousands of girls and women who passed through this institution