The Bright Side of Student Living: Contest Winner Announced!

Two days ago we published three interesting stories about your pleasant memories of living in student homes. We asked you to vote for your favourites and you did. This week’s winner of two free tickets for today’s Special Evening Opening at the Geffrye museum is Charmaine with her ‘Pizza Time’ story! Congratulations!

The "Who Stole my Milk?" Exhibit launched yesterday and will run until September. Even if you can’t make it to today’s opening event, come and see our fabulous exhibition! In the meantime, take a look at the digital story ‘London Living: A Student’s Tale’ that we’ve created for you. 

We’ve also got a short video showing you some of our behind-the-scenes footage!

Stay tuned for our report from the Special Evening Opening!

Welcome!

Welcome to the Who Stole My Milk? blog! We are MA students from the Institute of Archaeology at UCL.  We are preparing a project in collaboration with the Geffrye Museum on the unusual world of London’s modern student homes. The Exhibition will be ongoing from the 15th May to the 9th of September.


What makes a student home?  And what makes it unique from other London homes?  Who Stole my Milk? will tell the fascinating tale of how cooking implements, decorations, social customs and personal mementoes come together in the student’s quest for identity in this temporary home away from home. From inexpensive generic posters and low quality bed sheets, to personal tokens carried across borders, and the exchange of international recipes, we will show how students rise to the challenge of creating a home within an impermanent space and time. 


So, our aim for this blog is to enable you to interact with the project by contributing to these topics.  If you are a student, or have been one recently, or simply wish to share your thoughts on students living, we invite you to post your personal experiences, stories, and pictures with us!  We would love to hear from you. You can contact us at whostolemymilk@gmail.com.

Geffrye museum /photographers: David Clarke & Markus Leith