World Digital Preservation Day is the first Thursday of every November. This years theme ’Breaking Down Barriers’ focuses digital preservation supporting digital connections & creating lasting value. WDPD aims to create widespread awareness of digital preservation in society.
🩺 Dr. Wise Will See You Now 🩺
Pandemics have long-held status as fictional devices but silent film 'Dr. Wise on Influenza' (1919) is one of the few surviving UK-based films with information on the 1918 influenza pandemic. 1/2
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Marie Bee Bloom invented these brilliant rice paper masks that are biodegradable. They are embedded with flower seeds and will bloom once thrown into the soil. @dezeen@mariebeebloom
In medieval London, cheap lead badges purchased as souvenirs of holy pilgrimages were believed to protect the wearer against sickness. Many Londoners undertook pilgrimages to Canterbury, to the shrine of the London-born martyr Thomas Becket. #ThrowbackThursday#PandemicLife
This lead scroll is inscribed with a protective spell or prayer to the gods; invoking their protection for the amulet’s owner, a man named Demetrios. Found in the Thames, it may have been thrown in deliberately as a ritual offering.
Disease and death have always been part of living in London.
While modern medical science and public health systems have enabled us to defend against plagues and pandemics, the people who walked London’s streets before us had to rely on other resources. #TBT#DesignInQuarantine
How does your mask look? 👀
Aboriginal Masks hand made by an aboriginal women’s group in northern NSW. Tweeted by Dion Devow, Canberra-based designer and founder of @DarkiesDesign ❤️