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Arsenic and old…..hats?

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by Callie Jerman, second year student, MPhil Textile Conservation It’s strange sometimes how themes can re-occur throughout a project or course.  For the current second-year students one theme of the semester was ‘pesticides’.  Historic pesticide use in museums is a huge problem, as a wide variety of toxins were applied to objects, starting in the… Continue reading