![]() ![]() Unlike many commercial sites too, we have been very intent on enriching the sites in various ways to help us understand them and see how they relate to us, through explanatory essays, blog posts, image galleries, teaching materials, records of the creative work and exhibitions we’ve put on, and not least fiction (we believe fiction is a great way to show understanding).īLT19 was inspired indirectly by the values of arte povera, the 1970s Italian “poor art” movement that used discarded and overlooked objects to challenge the values of the commercialised art system. Unlike commercial sites, BLT19 has only the resources to digitise partial runs of selected nineteenth-century periodicals, even if many of them are very rare or even unique. We are always adding more as time and materials allow. With the school prizes and some administrative help supported by the University of Greenwich, we’ve tried at all times to do the most for the least amount of money, avoiding expensive web development or digitisation processes. Unlike other sites, we are entirely free. Some are connected to specific trades or professions, while others, like the British Workman or British Workwoman, much more generally extol the virtues of work and keeping a clear head so as to do it better. To promote this understanding, we have digitised Victorian periodicals that are hard or even impossible to find elsewhere. There is a great deal of academic research on work in sociology and business studies, as well as in history, but there has been almost none on how conceptions of work and its practices were formulated and disseminated through the Victorian periodical press. Under the guise of “employability,” work is a core preoccupation of universities and schools. In the fictions of films and television, the intersection of work and private life often forms the core of the drama, from Casuality and Line of Duty to Star Trek. Work is a central preoccupation of the news media today: employment figures, gender, class and ethnic inequalities, job losses and job creation are constant features. The BLT19 Project ( 19th-century Business, Labour, Trade & Temperance), run by Professor Andrew King at the University of Greenwich, helps us understand the history of how we think of “work” – what it is, what values we associate with it, and where our ideas about it come from. Nineteenth-Century Business, Labour, Trade & Temperance Periodicals Welcome to BLT19!
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