Have to be honest, if you told me I would finally get to the UK for research only for the British Library to catch fire on day one, don’t think I would have believed you and yet, here we are…

Delighted to be contributing my perspective on the food blender for The Futures Archive with @moreaulee + Sloan Leo and sharing a space with @danformsa Ruth Schwartz Cowan & @michellelokot. Do you have one on your kitchen counter? Maybe it's a Kenwood... 😉

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Swimming. I made a Words and Music for ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ about my favourite past-time, swimming. We’ve got ⁦a bit of Byron, some Stevie Smith and Richter and REM too. Dive in at 5.30pm on Sunday. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Delighted to have been awarded a grant from #BeingHuman2022 to support my event in collaboration with SMGResearch, Faculty of CCI, UoP & Pieroo. Our event explores how demonstrators sold the Kenwood Chef to consumers in postwar Britain. beinghumanfestival.org

Looking forward to giving my paper "The car on the forecourt, the Kenwood in the kitchen: the taxonomies of luxury goods in post-war Britain" on Thursday 7 July at the annual SocialHistorySociety #shs22 Lancaster University #kenwood #ideasofluxury

I am delighted to have been awarded funding from the Design History Society to support my event in collaboration with SMGResearch, Faculty of CCI, UoP & Pieroo. Our live event explores how demonstrators sold the Kenwood Chef to consumers in postwar Britain.

PhD student Alice Naylor will be 'Putting on a Show with the Kenwood Chef' @the_spring on 11 and 18 Nov as part of Being Human Festival. Her performance may bring back memories of your mum with her #kenwoodchef - at the heart of kitchens for over 70 years! bit.ly/3yerOrf

Tune to BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking 10pm Thursday to hear some of the academics taking part Being Human Festival and there are more insights and new research in this collection of conversations bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03…

Excited to be on BBC Free Thinking tonight talking about ‘Putting on a show with the Kenwood Chef’ at Pieroo as part of Being Human Festival with Faculty of CCI, UoP drama students using archive material from Science Museum. Thanks to Design History Society for their support.

It’s showtime! Rehearsals have begun for our Being Human Festival event Pieroo with Faculty of CCI, UoP students.

Shame to hear Camisa is closing. Soho investors and Westminster is very happy to use these businesses when it suits them - to add ‘vibe’ to premium development brochures - but does nothing to sustain them. I call for zero rates for all 25+yr independents. Least they could do.

In loving memory of artist Phyllida Barlow (1944 – 2023) A remarkably original, powerful and generous artist, Barlow singularly redefined a language of sculpture and consistently shattered conventions, challenging old notions of monumentality and of beauty

Alice Naylor, AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Researcher at the University of Portsmouth and Science Museum Group reports on two live events that evoked the history of a Kenwood demonstration, supported by the DHS Outreach and Events Grant. designhistorysociety.org/blog/view/repo…

Proud to celebrate Earth Day with a podcast I made for ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ looking at new ways of thinking about fashion and sustainability. ⁦Dr. Xine Yao @xineyaophd.bsky.social⁩ speaks to ⁦Lucy Orta Lucy + Jorge Orta⁩ & Monica Buchan-Ng ⁦London College of Fashion⁩ about circular fashion & cloth as a refuge

I have won the Social History Society’s Public History Prize for my live event, 'Putting on a Show with the Kenwood Chef'. socialhistory.org.uk/2023/06/21/pub…. My project was a collaboration between University of Portsmouth and Science Museum, made possible by Being Human Festival and Design History Society.

#RaiseAGlassToRussell

Water 17.5 Air 17 Listen to Belinda’s wonderful BBC playlist of swimming words and music. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

I love that I saw this post and the post immediately below it was an ad to apply for a credit card 😂

Very sad indeed to hear of the death of Sir Kenneth Grange. My absolute hero. Giving thanks for his redesign of the Kenwood Chef food mixer which forms a crucial strand of my PhD. His approach to design has been a huge inspiration.