title: Contested Objects: Curating Soldier Art
abstract: Joseph Rawdon’s account of his making of a military quilt incorporates an emotionalobject biography of a kind typically attached to this kind of material. He recallsthe long period of production, an investment of physical and emotional labourof a different, but related, order to the effort of his dead colleagues, those ‘poorfellows that fought hard for their country and fell in the struggle’, and whose thensurplus uniforms contribute to the fabric of the patchwork. In this co-authoredarticle we 
journal: Museum and Society