A SLICE OF LIFE

INVITING A SORT OF EVERYDAY TIME TRAVEL, OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS CHARM AND ENCHANT US, INDULGING OUR SIMPLE DELIGHT IN THE PAST

Words: JOLY BRAIME

‘The past is a foreign country,’ wrote LP Hartley in the much-quoted opening lines of The Go-Between, ‘they T do things differently there.’ Fortunately, you can visit this exotic land through the medium of open-air museums. Buy your visa (AKA ticket) at the gate and step through border control into a world quite unlike our own – from the food and fashion right down to the mundanities of everyday life. I have an enduring memory of visiting a Viking village near York sometime in the 1990s. In one timber-framed hut, a friendly teenage re-enactor a few years older than me – who ought by rights to have been smoking Bensons outside the ABC cinema and playing GoldenEye on his Super Nintendo – was making a chain-mail shirt, link by link. Even in…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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