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Welcome to the Domestic Technology Homepage

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"Our domestic life is of course suffused by technology, and information and communication technologies are becoming a central component of family and household culture. Our social relations both inside the home and outside it are sustained by the publicly generated and privately consumed meanings that they transmit."

Silverstone and Hirsch: Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces: 1992

Alarm Clock
Technology has progressed in leaps and bounds since 1900, and the Basildon and Billericay interviews provide an interesting insight into how and why domestic technology has developed in the way it has
By using oral history as a descriptive tool the following pages reveal a selection of fascinating memories which demonstrate the importance of preserving oral testimony-- which subsequently enables future generations to learn about the past in the very words spoken by these "everyday" men and women.

Wall Clock

"Without memory, you would have no knowledge of your own past, and you would find it difficult to explain the kind of person you are. A society with no knowledge of its past might be in much the same position. Society needs some knowledge of the past in order to understand the present."

(Liddament:1991:4)

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Argos

Bibliography and Acknowledgements