Requiem for Swifts Hat

[Amanda Randall]

Hi all,

Jacey asked me to try and share these  pictures of her wonderful 'Requiem for Swifts Hat' in the group.  I hope I have done it successfully. The hat is magnificent!

Amanda 

[Helen Lucy]

Excellent hat!

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[Louise at Bolton and Bury Swifts]

It's wonderful, well done Jacey!

In the 1800 and 1900's ladies used to wear not only feather hats but ones with whole birds stuck on the top, including a Swift. They of course we're horrific and whilst the Pankhurst sisters were fighting for women's rights and also wore these grotesque hats; Emma Williamson and Etta Lemon and other women were fighting just as hard for the birds, and their efforts eventually stopped this trade with legislation.  Etta's group went onto be the forerunner of the RSPB!

Read all about it in Tessa Boase's brilliant read, The Woman who saved the Birds!

Best,

Louise

Watch our livestream Swift Nest in conjunction with the RSPB.

https://www.youtube.com/live/n6ZSjt9POdk?si=6tpKE2wZYizTyJAO

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Subject: [SLN] Requiem for Swifts Hat

 

Hi all,

Jacey asked me to try and share these  pictures of her wonderful 'Requiem for Swifts Hat' in the group.  I hope I have done it successfully. The hat is magnificent!

Amanda 

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