ListentotheCommons
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AHRC project @uniyork exploring Women's Experience of Parliament c.1800 through Acoustic Reconstruction of House of Commons #vote100
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28-03-2017 10:33:59
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Our VOICE AND VOTE: WOMEN'S PLACE IN PARLIAMENT exhibition opens in 22 DAYS!!!! Booked your free ticket now parliament.uk/visit to experience the Ventilator, Cage, Tomb and Chamber - all spaces were women have campaigned, protested, and worked in UK Parliament for 200 years.
We're all set for York Festival of Ideas tonight! x.com/CatrionaCooper…
The ListentotheCommons team have been sound checking for #VoiceandVote #vote100 UK Parliament here are Dr Catriona Cooper & @Escijoe experiencing the Ventilator. Tickets available here parliament.uk/get-involved/v…
We also got the meet the excellent SonicaStudios London who have been working producing more audio for The Cage section of #VoiceandVote parliament.uk/get-involved/v…
And it's up! With thanks to some incredible work from John Cooper Damian Murphy Hannah Greig @AmyGalvin17 @Escijoe & @DrScottCheggUoY to name a few #VoiceandVote
And the biggest thank you should go to the incredible Melanie Unwin and Mari Takayanagi Mari Takayanagi for putting together the most incredible exhibition #VoiceandVote #Vote100
We get a mention in BBC Parliament! University of York History Department @UoYElecEng @labsofdc #audiolab x.com/UKVote100/stat…
Boy cat subverting my attempt to write about women in early modern parliaments by once again, falling asleep on top of my notes. I've shifted him. ListentotheCommons
Our team from University of York History Department @UoYElecEng #audiolab & @labsofdc are in Oxford today recording in the Holywell music room & The Divinity School Bodleian Libraries
Why is the ListentotheCommons team scurrying around Oxford’s Holywell Music Room? Any guesses History Of Parliament The Georgian Lords?
And here’s how it’s done! This sound is played in various points in the room and recorded with its acoustic feedback. @labsofdc Wadham College University of York History Department
Many thanks Wadham College for an excellent morning’s work at Holywell Music Room thinking about the sound of the historic House of Commons! University of York History Department ListentotheCommons History Of Parliament
This afternoon, we are conducting fieldwork in the beautiful Convocation House at Bodleian Libraries where Parliament met in the seventeenth century. @labsofdc University of York History Department @UoYElecEng
And last on our agenda, the famous Divinity School in Bodleian Libraries. Thanks so much for having us this afternoon! University of York History Department @UoYElecEng @labsofdc
Such a huge privilege and honour to be invited to this reception through our University of York ListentotheCommons project work #100years Vote 100 with John Cooper Dr Catriona Cooper Hannah Greig and colleagues!
#Vote100: there’s a long history of women’s exclusion from Parliament: in the 1800s they listened to proceedings through a ventilation shaft! AHRC-funded project ListentotheCommons is creating an acoustic reconstruction of their UK House of Commons experience | virtualststephens.org.uk