July 2026 Last week, as I packed my small trolley case for another school visit, this time in Harlesden, I found myself doing what I have done so many times before: carefully packing some of my grandmother, Rosy's possessions: bowls and ladles, small enamelware pots, and the box of letters and fragile papers that accompany me into every classroom. As I closed the case, I found myself thinking about suitcases. Not for the first time, perhaps, but for the first time in a way

Hephzibah Rudofsky, 14.6.2026 I come from a family who kept things. My grandmother preserved objects, letters and photographs; my mother carefully kept papers and family records; my father was a collector. Looking back, perhaps it was inevitable that I would develop my own version of the same instinct: to document, preserve and make sense of stories, details and experiences I wanted to remember. What began as a simple habit of record-keeping has gradually become an integral p