Episode 20

School Subjects Through Stitch: History, Math, and Geography Samplers (24 September 2020)

  • History of England sampler, from a private collection
  • Susanna Toovey’s kings of England sampler, from a private collection
  • Harriet Brown’s 1851 regiment sampler, from a private collection
  • Sarah Robertson’s 1759 sampler, from the Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Ann E. Colson’s 1809 US map sampler, from the Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Quaker globe sampler made at Westtown School, from Westtown School archives
  • Ann Seaton’s 1790 map sampler, from the Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Mary Ann Sadler’s mid-19th-century long division sampler, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Drusilla Dunford’s 19th-century money table sampler, from the Guildhall Museum
  • Helen Bell’s 1821 Dundee multiplication sampler, from a private collection
  • Elizabeth Knowles’s 1787 perpetual almanack sampler, from the Victoria and Albert Museum
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