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Northampton ‘golden age’ subject of museum lecture

04/04/2023
Northampton ‘golden age’ subject of museum lecture
US-based currier, cordwainer and calceologist Brett Walker is to discuss the role skilled shoemakers in and around the English town of Northampton played in deepening Britain’s global industrial footprint between the years 1660 and 1820 during a talk at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery on April 27. 

Artisan-historian Mr Walker is himself traditionally trained, specialising in “museum quality” colonial-era American footwear reproductions, having learned his craft directly from master boot and shoemaker DA “Al” Saguto, formerly of Virginia’s Colonial Williamsburg open-air museum. His presentation, titled ‘From Northampton for all: shoes for the poorest countryman and master during the golden age of shoemaking, 1660-1820’, is due to begin at 6.30 pm, ending by around 8.30 pm.

Mr Walker is expected to incorporate examples from the museum’s own footwear collection, which includes specimens from as far back as 5300 BC, typically housed within its newly extended shoe gallery, as well as discuss previously unpublished calceology (ie, shoe archaeology) discoveries. 

Tickets for the event can be purchased via Eventbrite here.

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery’s permanent shoe gallery. Courtesy.

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