Sinister Biological Warfare Sestude

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

39834

Title

Sinister Biological Warfare Sestude - Children's medicines

Description

The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'SINISTER BIOLOGICAL WARFARE SESTUDE'

'When friends of ours told us there were places, many of them run by local authorities, which incubate every known bug and virus, and spread colds, coughs, fevers, rashes and projectile vomiting amongst the nation's children, their parents and everyone within a ten mile radius of them, we dismissed this as the ravings of crazed conspiracy theorists.
Then our daughter started nursery....'

By Stephen Barnaby

Image: Children's medicines 1950s - 2005

Date

1950

Location

Museum of Childhood

26 Children's Winters is a project that has challenged writers to respond creatively and emotionally to objects housed in the collection of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. The writers were selected from 26 and they were allocated different groups of objects that related to childhood experience during the winter time, in the past and in the present. The written responses were in the form of a sestude - 62 words exactly, 26 in reflection. Those sestudes are presented here alongside the Museum objects.

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