Workshop Challenge
Your Task
How do you approach research methodologies for your academic journey?
The aim of this week’s workshop challenge is to select and deploy appropriate research methodologies to inform a need within a project.
Choose an object you feel has a story to reveal.
Write a 300 word text acknowledging the texts that link to your writing.
Upload an image of object with the title of your written precis onto the ideas wall.
Upload a link to your blog onto the ideas wall, with your image and your 300 word referenced precis, and demonstrating your reflection.
Final Piece
300 Word Precis
The clay pipe was first used in Britain in the 16th Century, following the importation of Tobacco from the Americas. The growth of the industry is described here, by Havana House Cigar Merchants (2017)…By the year 1650, it was so popular to smoke that there were over a thousand pipe makers in London alone…(Havana House Cigar Merchants 2017)
The National Pipe Archive (2018) explores the development and application of the finely-crafted, makers-mark…This style remained popular throughout the nineteenth century in the south east, with other areas adopting bowl stamping from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, particularly for advertising marks or slogans…(The National Pipe Archive 2018)
On the bowl of the pipe, we have the moulded image of a three-bow-knot and the initials S K, I was able to discover the meaning behind this decoration. The history of the Stafford Knot is surmised by the BBC News (2009)…The Stafford Knot (not the Staffordshire Knot!) is the symbol for the county of Staffordshire…(BBC-The History of The Stafford Knot 2009)
The nuance found within the Maker’s-mark on the pipe that I possess is explained here, by The National Pipe Archive (2018)…Marks of this style generally range from the late eighteenth century through to the mid-nineteenth century in date and are primarily found in the midlands and eastern England…(The National Pipe Archive 2018)
This tells me that the pipe that I have chosen to observe, was very-probably constructed in Stafford in the late Eighteenth Century. I draw your attention to the Maker’s-Mark on the bowl of the pipe itself and suggest that this mark is to be read as an Advertising-mark, and therefore we are able to assign a date to our object.
Bibliography/Reference List:
The National Pipe Archive (2018) How to…identify a maker [Online]. The National Pipe Archive. [Viewed 16th July 2019] Available from: http://www.pipearchive.co.uk/howto/maker.html
The National Pipe Archive (2018) How to…identify a maker [Online]. The National Pipe Archive. [Viewed 16th July 2019] Available from: http://www.pipearchive.co.uk/howto/maker.html
Havana House Cigar Merchants (2017) The History of the Clay Pipe [Online]. Havana House Cigar Merchants [viewed 17th July 2019]: https://www.havanahouse.co.uk/history-clay-pipe/
BBC (2009) The History of The Stanford Knot [Online]. BBC [Viewed 15th July 2019]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/stoke/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8401000/8401651.stm
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