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New museum exhibition illiam Cowper who lived his opposition of the slave trade and at Orchard Side (now the his concern for the poor of Olney, W Museum) for several years especially the lace workers. in the late 18th century adopted William mourned the hares’ deaths is helping to make three male leverets (baby and, as a poet would, he wrote hares) called Puss, an epitaph to Tiney, the Bess and Tiney and least domesticated of the they helped him three, which concludes: considerably to “But now beneath this cope with his Wallnut shade lifelong battle He finds his long, last with depression. home, HERstory He wrote about And waits in snug the hares concealment laid A female body sculpture, a section of fence from extensively in ‘Till gentler Puss shall Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford verse and in come”. Greenham Common, and a Scold's Bridle; just a few prose, interesting There are several of the items that have been gathered together for a even the illustrious objects relating to philosopher of the the hares on display bold new exhibition at Milton Keynes Museum. ©Simon Yeomans time, John Stuart Mill, at the Museum. These in their exploits. include a fine circular snuff The HERstory of Women in Objects exhibition has Puss once made an escape box depicting the hares drawn been inspired by the book, A History of Women in through the house window and ran by George Romney, a renowned off through the town. The hare was portrait painter of the time. You 100 Objects. safely recovered having ended up can also see a seal fob, which Milton Keynes Museum is at the lime works at the tannery would have been carried around "Like the fascinating collection of objects in the one of the best interactive near where Lime Street now stands. on a waistband comprising three William built each hare a bed seals, each depicting and naming museums, a perfect outing book - which features everything from the corset constructed in such a way that their one of the hares. The fob is a finely for all ages, staffed by and contraceptive pill to the car - we’re aiming for droppings fell through a grate so they worked piece that once belonged friendly volunteers, and were always “perfectly sweet and to Cowper’s cousin, Lady Harriet an exhibition that is challenging, inclusive, thought- highly recommended by clean” and they were allowed the Hesketh, and was gifted to her by provoking, brave and fun!" said Jane Matthews from visitors on TripAdvisor. run of the hall in the house and the Princess Elizabeth, the daughter Milton Keynes Museum. garden. This meant guests often had of George III. It is fascinating to Find out more and see our to come through the back kitchen think that the hares were so widely opening times at: door as the front door of the hall celebrated, even known about in www.mkmuseum.org.uk. opened directly onto Market Place. royal circles. You can also see the MK Peace Camp at Greenham Common © Living Archive Sculpture by Dawn Iles Puss became very docile, sitting very detailed impressions that the upon William’s lap and nibbling the seals made. Around the garden you WOMEN FROM OUR PAST A statue of Sister Dora, the first UK that had been paid to men at the If you are brave enough, you can spectrum of women's lives and hair on his temples. When they were will see several more contemporary The show is the perfect place to statue of a woman outside the royal printing works, and the role of the try the brank for size when you experiences – from body image, ill William nursed the hares back to hare sculptures, still frolicking where shine a spotlight on some of our family, was erected in 1886 in the OU in opening higher education to visit the exhibition! motherhood and childlessness, health with a “variety of herbs”. All Puss, Bess and Tiney once played. fascinating local women too. town's centre. It still stands tall there women, are also represented in the wives and homemakers, fashion, exhibited individual characteristics Ferrety facts: the Easter Rabbit was today. exhibition. EVERY ITEM TELLS A communication, transport and fascinated him. originally the Easter Hare, being Dorothy Pattison had dreamed of STORY travel, employment, politics, William monitored the hares’ diet, introduced into America in the being a nurse and was set to join Duchess Anna Maria Russell, wife of THE PATH TO EQUALITY Some of the items displayed aren't protest and much more. ensuring they had what they needed 1700s by German settlers. “Mad as Florence Nightingale's Sisters of the seventh Duke of Bedford, left her Part of HERstory celebrates the particularly remarkable to the eye, “It's an exhibition for everyone.” including the fine white sand that a March hare” and “hare brained” Mercy, until her father stopped her. mark too, by introducing a custom in huge strides women have taken on but the stories attached to them he noted they ate, which seemed to are also both historic expressions 1841 that is still widely enjoyed today. the path to equality. are – like the hairdryer taken by > HERstory is open now, help their digestion. They particularly relating to the extreme behaviour She became a teacher in Little its hairdresser owner when she and is being housed in one liked hawthorn and briar. Bess died that hares exhibit during their mating Woolstone instead, and devotedly It was the Duchess who started the For centuries, simply voicing an fled Syria with her husband and of the new galleries at Milton young but Tiney lived to be nine season (around March & April) when nursed anyone in need – staying all tradition of taking afternoon tea, opinion was viewed as a threat if family. They lost nearly all their Keynes Museum. The exhibition and Puss died at nearly twelve. So the males box each other and leap night to comfort the dying in the area. apparently to stave off the hunger you were a woman, and those who possessions in their haste to leave, will continue throughout the domesticated did Puss become that and frolic around the females! pangs she suffered between her spoke out of turn were punished but keeping the hairdryer was a summer and suggestions and he ate bread out of William’s hand at Part of HERstory She did eventually achieve her lunch and dinner! with a heavy metal frame called a conscious decision. And what it stories for inclusion will be the same time as Marquis, William’s goal though, and Sister Dora, as Scold's Bridle, or brank. A metal stands for is precious. taken during the four month run spaniel. Circulation: celebrates the she became known, worked in The Duchess began regularly taking plate would hold the tongue, ensuring a changing display. Unsurprisingly William abhorred sometimes horrific conditions, and tea, bread and cake, and later shared rendering the wearer unable to Iman said: “My hairdryer reminds the hare coursing that was a popular huge strides squalid, cramped houses in industrial the habit by inviting friends to join speak, eat or swallow. me of Syria but it also reminds me Would you like to take “sport” at the time, saying of the Walsall. her at Woburn Abbey. A tradition was that I am not just a refugee – I am part? courser: “He little knows what women have born.