The Museum of Everyday Life is directed and curated by the Public and Community Historian Dr John Price.
Aims of the museum
To engage with an extraordinary collection of historical objects, images, and ephemera, and begin making it digitally and informatively accessible for everyone.
To demonstrate that the ‘everyday’ is valuable and insightful, and that nothing and nobody is ever ‘ordinary’.
To bring histories of the everyday to life, and to inform and educate people about the past in innovative and entertaining ways.
To gain a greater understanding of the relationships between memory and material culture by stimulating people’s memories and experiences of the past.
People’s History
The Museum demonstrates the value and benefits of a People’s History approach to the past. It shows that history can be something which is relevant and pertinent to people’s lives, and something which is alive and stimulating rather than dead and gone.
It proves that all sources and memories of their past are valid and can make important contributions to our understanding of the past.
People’s History is an inclusive, democratic, and empowering enterprise and one of its key objectives is to widen and recenter the focus of history to encompass a broader and more representative body of people.
It is also about encouraging people to take ownership of their own histories and increase awareness and visibility of them.
Project Team
Museum Director and Curator: Dr John Price, Public and Community Historian
Assistant Curator: Jude Pretoria, Postgraduate Historian
Archive and Research Assistant: Madeleine Beaumont-Grice, Undergraduate Historian
Archive and Research Assistant: Adam Markiewicz, Postgraduate Historian
Archive and Research Assistant: Kate Fothergill, Postgraduate Historian
Previous Internships:
Cindy Liu, BA History of Art (year three), Goldsmiths Research Intern Programme (GRIP) Intern in summer 2024
Previous Research Assistants:
Charlie Merchant-Walsh, BA History, Goldsmiths, University of London, Public History Work Placement module, spring 2024
Pheroza Mottram, BA History, Goldsmiths, University of London, Public History Work Placement module, spring 2024
Find out more about the collection behind the Museum