Here's a whirlwind visual overview of the "From Canvas to Silk" programme I devised and led at the National Trust for Scotland's Georgian House in Edinburgh earlier this year. youtube.com/shorts/5Ewcp...
NEW ESSAY: Historical Reproductions – Bobbin Laces from Southernmost Sweden. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/hi...
📣This morning we are delighted to share our new Leverhulme Trust project website! Find out more about the team, how we plan to transcribe 25,000 wills in collaboration with the public & our research questions: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...#History#EarlyModern
Large-print books for visually impaired readers are often considered an early 20th century invention, but of course low-vision people existed before that. In the 18th century, many printers produced large-print prayer books such as this one from c. 1789. New acquisition (donation), EHC 891756.
The University of York is hiring a Lecturer in Fashion History (open-ended contract in History of Art). Please consider join me and my wonderful colleagues in this fabulous organisation and city and please shared widely to your networks. Deadline 31 Jan jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
FB seems to have so effectively shadowbanned Medieval & #EarlyModernmemorients.com/articles/ric...
I had just forgotten how early modern mariners went everywhere and that ultimately everything is connected.
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"After a certain point the record fades from the page. Beyond this point all is conjecture, but that is the very point where the novelist goes to work." ~ Hilary Mantel #writing#HistoricalFiction