Blog of Dr Kirsten Jarrett: freelance Historian, Archaeologist, & Material Culture investigator, leader of learning, maker & creative practitioner.
Meandering through Tudor, Stuart & Georgian England, focusing on the Midlands, especially Derbyshire.
Bringing the past to life in imaginative & engaging ways, including archaeological storytelling, & artwork (particularly site reconstructions), & interactive media (particularly digital productions).
Co-creating & -making through community archaeologies, exhibitions, trails, immersive cultural experiences & crafts (particularly needlework).
Investigating everyday life & experiences; domestic material worlds; ritual, belief & death; in the late 15th- – early- 19th-centuries.
Specialising in early modern home environments; sensory perception; marriage, family & community; welfare & charity; memory & identity; disease, burial & remembrance; life-cycle, seasonal & supernatural ceremonies; witchcraft, spirits & fairies; community archaeology; & archaeo-therapy.
Notes of an Antiquary 