The History of Toys on BBC2
Deborah will be appearing on The Toys that Made Christmas, broadcast on BBC 2 at 9pm on Christmas Day and again at 11.30pm on 27th December. More information here.

Links
The December 2011 edition of Links, volume 220, edited by Deborah, has now been published. More information on the Newcomen website.



Upcoming Events
Deborah will be presenting papers at two conferences in early 2012.

Rethinking the History of Childhood: Narratives, Sources, Debates
Conference at the University of Greenwich, 14th January 2012, where Deborah will give her paper Adventure or Assault Course based on her original research.

Peripheral Modernisms
International conference at IGRS, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 23rd-24th March 2012, where Deborah will give her paper Bauhaus Dessau, 1979 Further information here.

The September edition of Links, volume 219, edited by Deborah, has now been published. More information on the Newcomen website.

On the 13th July, the paper Innovating Women: Illuminating Achievement and Success, which Deborah co-authored with Professor Pooran Wynarczyk (Business School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), was presented at the Triple Helix IX International Conference, Stanford University, USA. More information on the conference here.

The June edition of Links, volume 218, edited by Deborah, has now been published. More information on the Newcomen website.

Christine Evans-Pughe interviewed Deborah for her article Engineering's most ingenious women, published in E&T - Engineering and Technology Magazine, 16 May 2011. Click here to view it.

New website launched!
Take a look at all the new and updated content. More to come over the next few months.

Deborah will be giving her paper Utopia - Clara Louisa Wells, at the Alternative Worlds Series at the IGRS, University of London, on Wednesday 25th May 2011, 6.30 - 9.00pm. Clara Louisa Wells is one of her Ingenious Women who spent over 40 years travelling across Europe devising schemes and petitioning governments in her hope of improving society. Further details here.

Newcomen
On 1 January Deborah became editor of Links, the newsletter of Newcomen - The International Society for the History of Engineering and Technology.
She also edited and designed the report of the Newcomen Summer Meeting, Solent 2010 - download the report in pdf here.

Souvenirs
New to the souvenirs collection - a souvenir of Ramsgate/cruet. Photograph by Deborah Jaffé.

Vietnam
The metal framed windows in the Reunification Palace Saigon, Vietnam (built in the 1960s) are a reminder of the influence of the Bauhaus. Photograph by Deborah Jaffé October 2010.
Souvenir sellers in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. Photograph by Deborah Jaffé October 2010.

Deborah is now a member of the Steering Committee of the National Art & Design Saturday Club at the Sorrell Foundation.

The chapter on Ingenious Women written by Deborah specially for Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research Volume 001, edited by Wynarczyk and Marlow, has been published by Emerald.

Souvenirs
The ongoing research on souvenirs continues to be fascinating, fun and constantly unfolding. The collection of ceramic souvenirs from the 1890s-1950s grows weekly. Watch this space.

Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, Volume 001, edited by Wynarczyk and Marlow, to which Deborah has contributed a lengthy chapter, will be published by Emerald Press in November 2010. Her chapter includes updated research on Ingenious Women and gives an overview, from 1637 to the present, of women inventors and entrepreneurs.

Forthcoming events
25 September 2010 - The Bauhaus Dessau, 1979
Deborah will present a paper on the influence of the Bauhaus on post war design on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This is based on her experience at the Bauhaus, Dessau GDR in 1979, and take place at the Study Day: Cold War Cities to be held at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London. For further information email ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk or visit the Institute's website.

26 September 2010 - Tunbridge Ware
Deborah will give a lecture about the history of wooden toys at the Tunbridge Ware Day at the Hotel Du Vin, Tunbridge Wells on 26th September 2010. For further details email info@edenbridgegalleries.com or visit the Edenbridge Galleries website.

Victoria: A celebration which Deborah wrote in 2001 has been reissued as Victoria: Her Life, Her People, Her Empire by Carlton to coincide with the fascinating exhibition 'Victoria and Albert in Love' at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace.