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Born. Polly Elisabeth Russell. Surrey, England. Alma mater. University of Exeter. Occupation (s) Food historian, curator. Polly Elisabeth Russell is a food historian and curator at the British Library with responsibility for research on social science and food. She writes a food history column for the weekend magazine of the Financial Times and ...
Polly Russell works as a curator of Contemporary Politics and Public Life and Food Studies at the British Library, and as a freelance food consultant and writer. Polly's research subjects include the history of British food and the social, cultural and political connections between food and everyday life as well as women's history and feminism.
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Polly Russell, Head. Last month, in a meeting at the British Library, Catherine Eccles gave me a few papers she had discovered relating to the early years of the Eccles Centre. These included this copy of the speech given by David Eccles at the Centre’s official opening in November 1991:
Dr Polly Russell works as a curator at the British Library, and as a freelance food researcher, writer and consultant. Polly’s research subjects include the history of British food and the social, cultural and political connections between food and everyday life. Outside of her work at the British Library, Polly divides her time between research and writing. Polly is currently advising ...
Mar 12, 2013 · On Friday 8 th March, International Women’s Day, the British Library held an event with 150 guests to celebrate the launch of a new oral history archive and website. This marked the end of a three year research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust , called ‘ Sisterhood & After: the Women’s Liberation Oral History Project.
May 13, 2013 · Dr Polly Russell Polly Russell is a Lead Curator in the Social Science department at the British Library. Polly is responsible for collections relating to Human Geography and Anthropology and her research interests include feminism, oral history and food. She was the main British Library link for the project, working closely with the project ...
Nov 5, 2012 · I recently had a productive conversation with my colleague Dr Polly Russell about the re-use of the oral history interviews held in our collections at the British Library. Polly was in the process of writing a talk for an event which is to be held here this November (‘Tales from the Archive’) in which she will trace the biography of one ...
