Farthing Breakfasts and Penny Dinners: images and realities of poverty in 1920s Exeter - Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
17 November 2021 17 November 2021When: 17 November 2021
Where: Zoom
Time: 7pm - 8pm
Cost: £8 (Friends £6)
Suitable for: 18+
Exeter artist Charles Tucker was born in 1920, not long after his father was demobilised from service in the First World War. He grew up in an area condemned as a slum by Exeter City Council and awaiting redevelopment. In later life he painted scenes from his childhood that had stayed in his memory, including two portraying the work of the food relief charities, the Farthing Breakfast Relief Fund and the Exeter Soup Kitchen. Three of his paintings were donated to RAMM by his sister after his death.
Julia Neville explores what the pictures convey about poverty and hunger in Exeter in the 1920s, and how the work of these charities fitted into the jigsaw of statutory and voluntary welfare services then available to people in the city.
Dr Julia Neville is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at Exeter University. She is currently leading a project based at the Devon and Exeter Institution investigating life in the West Quarter in the 1920s. This is part of a wider project that she is managing on the often-neglected history of Devon in the 1920s.
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