These articles were sent to us by Sally MacDonald, Director of UCL Museums, Collections and Public Engagement.

Louise and Kay Lieber told me about studying Art History and archaeology at the City Lit in the 1960's.

Valerie Wilson, a former student from UCL MA Egyptian Archaeology course popped on the bus.

This object reminded me of some possibly lead toys I had when I was a child. They had been my dad's toys back from the 1950s before people knew of the risks of lead.

Installation as inspiration

In 'Gender and Archaeology: Contesting the Past' considers gender as 'the cultural interpretation of sexual difference: its qualities can be conflicting, mutable, and cumulative, contingent upon pe

Exploration of objects: we all know how babies and small children put things in their mouths to explore them, whereas older children and adults use hands and fingers.

PART ONE (Some Road Trips): Overland Tour 35,000 miles of Classic Blacktop East to West (1) Pacific Coast: Olympic National Park to San Diego (2) Border to Border: Canadian Rockies to the Rio Grand

The object recalls a detail in Richard Hamilton's painting 'Homage a Chrysler Corp.', 1957, now on display in Tate Modern (see attached file).

I am interested in the car being a ‘Tootsie toy’; named after the daughter of the founder already giving it a feminine origin. ‘Tootsie’ is American slang for a girl or a young woman.