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The Museum of English Rural Life
@TheMERL
The MERL, @UniofReading. We explore the history of rural England, its communities, and its people. Chaotic Good.
Oct 6, 2018 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Ok, we found something amazing and we demand you to come on a journey with us: A lot of our offices are like this.

The usual depressing office furniture, the utilitarian bookshelves, the archive trolleys which we *definitely* don’t ride down the corridors and…
Jul 25, 2018 • 17 tweets • 11 min read
Wagons are a pinnacle of English craft.

Imagine looking at some wood and metal, just sitting there on the ground all formless, and thinking: I can make a thing of both utility and beauty out of this.

Here’s a thread about how they do that. #MusTools Firstly a note on wagons.

Before the combustion engine and pneumatic tyres, vehicles relied on their construction and draught animals to be able to get around.

Each wagon is a distillation of its region’s geography. Each is uniquely suited to its environment.

#MusTools
Jun 24, 2018 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
It’s Sunday. We find ourselves at the station faced with an array of possible destinations. We have alighted in Glorious Goring.

And so have lots of others, it would appear.