Edwardian Pastimes 1905-1910 1905 - 1910

Curator: Oh, my, what a charming little treasure! It's called "Edwardian Pastimes," made between 1905 and 1910 by Leslie Hamilton Wilson. Editor: It strikes me as something intimate, a sort of personal journal. The dark purple almost feels secretive, doesn't it? Like hidden thoughts bound in leather. Curator: Absolutely! It hints at the private lives and leisure activities during a time of immense social change. What were they really doing behind closed doors, you know? Editor: And who gets to have "pastimes?" Leisure itself is a loaded concept, historically linked to privilege and power. I wonder whose pastimes this represents. Curator: Fair point! It makes me wonder about the act of preservation itself. What stories are we choosing to keep, and whose are left out? Editor: Precisely. Even in something as seemingly simple as a gilded-edged album, there are hierarchies at play, and that album also can tell a story. Curator: Well, it's certainly given me something to ponder – the quiet rebellion of personal space in the Edwardian era! Editor: Agreed. It's a beautiful reminder that the personal is always, irrevocably, political.