{"id":6056,"date":"2021-11-05T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2021\/11\/05\/murderous-millinery-bringing-emily-williamson-back-life-statue\/"},"modified":"2021-11-05T13:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T13:56:32","slug":"murderous-millinery-bringing-emily-williamson-back-life-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/murderous-millinery-bringing-emily-williamson-back-life-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Murderous millinery: bringing Emily Williamson back to life with a statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{30}\" paraid=\"422035356\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The story of Victorian conservationist Emily Williamson had faded into history until the recent campaign of the erection of her statue in Manchester.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{37}\" paraid=\"104844566\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Manchester Art Gallery has&nbsp;collaborated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilywilliamsonstatue.com\/\">Emily Williamson Statue Campaign <\/a>to allow the public to decide who will commission the statue of Emily Williamson in her&nbsp;honour.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{44}\" paraid=\"1328913676\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Williamson&nbsp;started a campaign to combating the use of exotic birds\u2019 feathers, in the midst of the Victorian hat trend.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{44}\" paraid=\"1328913676\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">In 1889&nbsp;she invited her friends to tea in her&nbsp;Didsbury&nbsp;home&nbsp;to pledge not to wear feathers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{83}\" paraid=\"1452967418\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">This led to the creation of the&nbsp;Society&nbsp;for the Protection&nbsp;of Birds (RSPB)&nbsp;which spent 30 years campaigning for the trade of exotic bird skins to be made illegal.<\/p>\n<h3 lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{83}\" paraid=\"1452967418\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Plumage<\/h3>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{83}\" paraid=\"1452967418\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">In 1921, the Plumage Act was passed&nbsp;forbidding anyone to trade the feathers from exotic birds.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{90}\" paraid=\"2144056790\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The campaign and Manchester Art&nbsp;Gallery&nbsp;aims&nbsp;to put up a lifesize bronze statue of Williamson&nbsp;in&nbsp;Fletcher Moss park in Didsbury.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{90}\" paraid=\"2144056790\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">A public vote will decide which artist\u2019s design is selected&nbsp;for the statue. Artists in the running include Clare Abbat, Billie Bond, Laury&nbsp;Dizengremel&nbsp;and Eve Shepherd.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{97}\" paraid=\"612225156\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The gallery has organised an exhibition&nbsp;to help the public understand each piece of artwork, and vote for their&nbsp;favourite&nbsp;to be adapted into a life size model.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{97}\" paraid=\"612225156\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Andrew Simcock, chair of the Emily Williamson Statue campaign, said:&nbsp;\u201cOver 11,500 people have already voted in this competition and this final stage is an opportunity for the Manchester public to come and see the designs for themselves and vote for their&nbsp;favourite&nbsp;design.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{13ef0eb4-ef0c-43c8-a1a8-7bd3ea144855}{104}\" paraid=\"1411483032\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The vote closes at midnight on 12&nbsp;November with&nbsp;the winner will be announced at Manchester Art Gallery the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Victorian conservationist Emily Williamson had faded into history until the recent campaign of the erection of her statue in Manchester.&nbsp;&nbsp; Manchester Art&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1424,"featured_media":6055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972,1],"tags":[4523,742,4501,3541],"class_list":["post-6056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-emily-williamson","tag-manchester-art-gallery","tag-rspb","tag-statue"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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