The 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" event has been announced! Taking place online on September 24th, it's all about exploring the "connections between smell, scene, fragrance and the social and cultural history of Dress and Textiles".

Programme:
🧴 Caroline Vaughan-Kett: Scents and Sensibility; an Insider's View into Modern Perfumery
🧴 Kimberly Wahl: Perfume and Visual Culture 1880 to 1915
🧴 Hilary Davidson: The Fragrance of Fabric. Some Directions in Research

Read more and register for free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-24th-sept-2023-200pm-bst-tickets-711979920107?aff=oddtdtcreator

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #MaterialCulture #TextileHistory #Perfume #19thCentury #Histodons @histodons @historikerinnen

With its haunting melody, and the romantic myth that it was written by #HenryVIII as a love song for #AnneBoleyn, Greensleeves has remained popular over the centuries and today, is probably the best known of all #Tudor #songs.

However there is no proven connection to Henry VIII, and the earliest mention of the broadside ballad called #Greensleeves was not until September 1580, (some 33 years after his death). It was an immediate hit, and a number of imitations and parodies were produced in the following months and years.

Our recording uses the text from 'A Handful of Pleasant Delights', 1584 - the earliest surviving source. There are many verses, some of which contain lovely descriptions of #Elizabethan clothing and other aspects of #MaterialCulture

Richard de Winter: baritone
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #earlymodern #costume #fashionhistory #histodon #histodons #tudors @earlymusic
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Craziness of last few months has meant barely any stitching but back to my 1771 pincushion pattern from the Lady’s Magazine. Embroidery scissors for scale #needlework #embroidery #georgian #eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #materialculture #fiberarts

Delighted that after unnecessary tussling (because I got a new job) that my database of Georgian needlework designs is back online. There are 150+ patterns on the site now. The next upload has been delayed but once I am back from a family holiday, I’ll get on to it. https://ladysmagazine.omeka.net #womenshistory #materialculture @fiberarts

Save the date! Sunday July 30 is the 19th Century Dress & Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" online conference.

Programme:
🧵 Jo Teague - The Material Culture of the Needlework of Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum
🧵 Deirdre Morgan - Pants, Performance, and Perception: The Impact of New York's Disguise Law (1845) on Gendered Dress

Read more and register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-30th-july-2023-200pm-bst-tickets-681038653947

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #MaterialCulture #19thCentury #Histodons #WomensHistory #Gender @histodons @historikerinnen

Finally: #SDSS plates for education! The SDSS plates are getting a new life in schools. My #MaterialCulture heart is sooooooo happy #NAM2023 #Astronomy #SciComm #PublicEngagement

Princeton University Library announces that its collection of Latin American Ephemera Collection is now digitally available.

https://latinamericana.princeton.edu/latin-american-ephemera-digitized-microfilm-sets/

#histodons #materialculture #latinamerica #archives

The Magic in PGM VII
Looking closer at how ritual acts, ritual ingredients and magical artefacts were combined and applied in PGM VII.

Upcoming Lecture with Q&A
Sunday, June 25th, 6 pm CET

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Join my lectures & support my goal to make more research accessible for free!

Papyrus image:
PGM VII (British Library, Papyrus London 121)
© The British Library Board

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#archaeology #classics #ancient #magic #esoteric #occult #egypt #papyri #lecture #materialculture

Heute ging ein Denkanstoß von mir auf doing | public | history online. Es geht um das Verhältnis von #DIY und #DoingHistory – und das am Beispiel der #Reenactment-Szene bzw. #LivingHistory.

#PublicHistory #MaterialCulture #histodons

@histodons @historikerinnen @UniOldenburg @antiquidons

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https://doingph.hypotheses.org/1921

The #ancient Greek #magical #papyrus PGM VII contains five sections with information about good and bad times for #ritual practice:

A list called "Orbit of the Moon“, an #Egyptian #calendar and a list of days and hours for divination.

See images for details.
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Tickets are now available for the next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed Network's "At Home" online conference on Sunday, June 25.

Programme:
👒 Helen Wyld - Edinburgh Shawls: New Approaches
👒 Veronica Main MBE - Straw Hats: Luton then the World
👒 Nicole Rudolph - Elastic Shoes: Stretching Back Almost 200 years

Read more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-25-june-2023-at-200pm-bst-tickets-640090105737?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

I'm looking forward to an interesting and informative Sunday afternoon. As always, admission is free!

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #Histodons #MaterialCulture #19thCentury #TextileHistory @histodons @historikerinnen @historians.social

Now that it's official, I'm excited to share that I'll be spending 6 months at the Smithsonian Institution next year doing research for my next book on women's political participation in early America. I'll be digging into genre paintings, portraits, prints, textiles, campaign memorabilia, and more!
https://americanart.si.edu/press/2023/16/smithsonian-american-art-museum-announces-2023-2024-fellowship-appointments-and

#histodons #materialculture #arthistory #museums #womenshistory

#DesignHistory #OralHistory journal article alert! I'm delighted to see my article published as part of the special electricity issue of the Journal of Electricity History, edited by Animesh Chatterjee and Daniel Perez Zapico, with thanks to the ESB Archives and the National Museum of Ireland: https://energyhistory.eu/en/special-issue/electricity-modernity-and-tradition-during-irish-rural-electrification-1940-1970 #IrishHistory #IrishDesign #MaterialCulture

An #ancient #amulet against the Evil Eye

To ward of evil, the eye is pierced by a trident, pecked by a raven, and attacked by a scorpion, cat, dog, swan, #snake ...

Gold, ca. 1st - 4th century
#Roman

See the similar #mosaic https://twitter.com/antikemagie/status/1518607933935869954/

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✨ On Friday May 19, you can attend a (free) hybrid conference titled "Historical Fragments: Making, Breaking and Remaking" hosted by The Material and Visual Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries Research Cluster, University of Edinburgh.

The conference "considers the materiality and shifting conditions of global objects and collections (focusing on the time period 1500-1800) as they are broken, fragmented, remade, or assembled. Seeking to investigate the ‘brokenness’ of such material culture objects and collections, the conference will de-centre conservation and restoration which often dominate discourse on the subject. The Research Cluster aims to provide a space to foster interdisciplinary discussion on the material approaches to fragmented objects through material culture."

✨ Registration and programme: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/historical-fragments-making-breaking-and-remaking-online-attendance-tickets-620156904997

#Histodons #MaterialCulture #VisualCulture #17thCentury #18thCentury #EarlyModern #History
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Online-Vortrag zur #MaterialCulture! Am 26. April um 17 Uhr spricht Jakub Sawicki von der Tschechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften über "United Europe of Medieval Small Finds. Production and consumption of late medieval dress accessories" im Rahmen von "Materielle Welten", dem virtuellen Salon am IMAREAL der Uni Salzburg. Mehr Informationen gibt's hier: https://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/materielle-welten-vii/

Family Stories, Family Treasures and some Memories: a task for the family archivist #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #MaterialCulture #Heirlooms https://thehistoryinterpreter.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/family-stories-family-treasures-and-some-memories-a-task-for-the-family-archivist/

'Cookbooks. Menus. Ingredients. Dishes. Pots. Kitchens. Markets. Museum exhibitions. These objects, representations, and environments are part of what the volume calls the material cultures of food.' https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbury-handbook-of-food-and-material-cultures-9781350148307/ #foodhistory #foodanthropology #materialculture

Since then, I've done *a lot* more thinking about #MaterialCulture and printed circuit boards - and I'd add a lot more stuff on to that blog post! There's a lot to be gained from talking to the people who worked on these circuit boards and respecting the role of technical expertise in interpreting these objects. Makers' marks can tell us about the ecosystem in which these circuit boards were put together. And their "afterlives" are important too.

Nearly 2 years ago, I wrote this blog post thinking through printed circuit boards as #MaterialCulture: https://osnatkatz.com/2020/08/26/what-can-we-learn-from-printed-circuit-boards/