The prime minister's potato and other essays

The prime minister's potato and other essaysCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781763733138 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2025 Publisher: Black Inc Description: A curator's journey to uncover the stories behind everyday objects and preserve history for the common good After thirty years confined within museum walls, a restless history curator steps out for air. In this book of essays, Anne Marie Conde grants herself freedom to ask fresh questions about the significance of objects and places

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781763733138
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: Black Inc


Description:
A curator's journey to uncover the stories behind everyday objects and preserve history for the common good




After thirty years confined within museum walls, a restless history curator steps out for air. In this book of essays, Anne-Marie Conde grants herself freedom to ask fresh questions about the significance of objects and places within the lives of ordinary people. Cemeteries, junk shops, war memorials. Stones and scraps and scrawls. These are where this author goes for inspiration.




Whether it's a wet greasy pavement in Hobart or a message in chalk in Sydney- Conde can coax a historical narrative out of the most meagre sources. Along the way she asks why anyone would offer a potato as a gift to a prime minister? How could this humble vegetable help us think about Australia's past?




Throughout, Conde casts a patient and gently curious gaze over her subjects. Many writers are fascinated by unrecorded lives, but where there are records, Conde is sure to find them.