Rebecca Olds · @timesmith
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The "Crown to Couture" exhibition at Kensington Palace features fabulous red carpet looks inspired by even more fabulous 18th century court dress in the Historic Royal Palaces' collections.

On til 29 October 2023.
hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/w

@histodons @matculture

#materialculture #dresshistory #fashionhistory #historicaldress #fashion

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ardeninred · @ardeninred
16 followers · 28 posts · Server glammr.us

speaking of articles, I forgot to post about my fabulous team's latest journal article:

"“I’m Not Searching the Right Words”: User Experience Searching Historic Clothing Collection Websites"

if you can't access this DOI: doi.org/10.18848/1835-2014/CGP

then look for the Accepted Manuscript here: surface.syr.edu/istpub/197/

#musetech #ux #search #metadata #materialculture

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Karin Wulf · @kawulf
2197 followers · 2172 posts · Server historians.social

I know it looks like a bicentennial-themed product c 1976, but this textile is from 1785, called the "apotheosis of Franklin" (!!!) and a piece is being auctioned at Swann's tomorrow. (Tempted, but no, not bidding!)

#vastearlyamerica #materialculture #founders

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Jim Wald · @CitizenWald
1156 followers · 2598 posts · Server historians.social

Can the National Centre be saved? Apollo Magazine

"The first time most people heard of Britain’s National Glass Centre was in January 2023, when the BBC and the Observer reported that its owner, the University of Sunderland, had decided to close it down within three years. The story of the NGC’s rise and prospective fall is a case study in how applied arts education is being dismantled, year by year, in universities around the country."

apollo-magazine.com/national-g

#glass #museums #materialculture

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JenHoward · @JenHoward
786 followers · 195 posts · Server mstdn.social

Look what came in yesterday’s mail! A copy of the Chinese edition of my book. :)

#bookstodon #consumerism #materialculture #decluttering #Organizing #clutterbook #clutter

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Jessica Reinisch · @JessicaReinisch
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Jim Wald · @CitizenWald
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To turn to more edifying topics of interest to @histodons:

My "haystack" measure made by Joseph Austin & Son of Cork, c. 1828-33. It held 1 noggin=1 gill=1/4 pint=5 imperial fl. oz.

These delightful measures were never exported to the United States & are therefore found here either because Irish immigrants brought them with them or because collectors later acquired them. The marks are of the reign of George IV, when it was made, William IV, & apparently, George V

6/n

#irish #materialculture

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Jesse Adams Stein · @jesseadamsstein
167 followers · 71 posts · Server mastodon.au

What is "All Hands on Deck"? It's a genuinely cross-disciplinary symposium @ UTS 19-21 July 2023, investigating the future of work, skill requirements and material production at a time of human and environmental calamity. It asks: What kinds of work – paid and unpaid – will be genuinely needed in the future, and what sorts of skills and capacities will this require? allhandsondeck2023.com/

Convened by myself and Dr Chantel Carr. The keynote speakers are Prof Alice Twemlow and Emeritus Prof Tim Ingold. Full speakers and abstracts lists due out in a matter of days... and the schedule and registration will be available soon after that.

#allhandsondeck2023 #futureofwork #futureskills #labourstudies #energyfutures #decarbonisation #justtransitions #environmentallabourstudies #design #designstudies #humangeography #labourgeographies #uts #materialculture #repair #trades #skill #technicalskill #craft #manufacturing #production #workers #industrialrelations

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Tamsin Lewis · @Passamezzo
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UCLA CalRBS · @calrbs
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Fiona Tribe · @fionatribe
259 followers · 204 posts · Server aus.social

Box Brownie camera.

#materialculture #photography

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UCLA CalRBS · @calrbs
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Jim Wald · @CitizenWald
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For , some gems (1)

Cat & Mouse: Höchst manufactory, c. 1760, Museum of Fine Arts .

1/n

#caturday #historical #boston #germany #porcelain #eighteenthcentury #materialculture

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Fiona Tribe · @fionatribe
257 followers · 215 posts · Server aus.social

Found these in Mum’s ‘secret’ stamp collection.

#materialculture

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Joshua R. Greenberg · @joshrgreenberg
571 followers · 233 posts · Server historians.social

New on ! How does a puzzle version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, destabilize the narrative? Patricia Jane Roylance explains in our newest post. Read here: commonplace.online/article/unc

#commonplace #twitterstorians #vastearlyamerica #materialculture

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Joshua R. Greenberg · @joshrgreenberg
570 followers · 219 posts · Server historians.social

When you turn a novel into a jigsaw puzzle, what does it do to the narrative thread of the story? Patricia Jane Roylance wrestles with this problem concerning an Uncle Tom's Cabin puzzle in a new piece assembled and disassembled for Commonplace.online. Check it out here: commonplace.online/article/unc

#materialculture #histodons

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Jim Wald · @CitizenWald
943 followers · 1231 posts · Server historians.social

Another fascinating tidbit from one of the excellent series of videos produced by the Museum für Vorgeschichte Halle:

This beautiful and fragile piece of Frankish glassware came to Thüringen from Cologne far to the west (c. 470-530)

But how?

Written sources dating to Classical Antiquity explain that delicate glassware was shipped in boxes filled with butter

youtu.be/t0XBlhAWF2o?t=162

#archaeology #materialculture

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Kathy Reid · @KathyReid
2786 followers · 1028 posts · Server aus.social

Good morning :fediverse:! Hope you've all had a great weekend. In this morning's post, in which I help to more richly connect us together, I'd like you to meet:

@ZoeGlatt is a candidate and , and founder of @DigitalEthnographyCollective. They (not assuming pronouns) are submitting in March and are interested in jobs researching culture, and

@ndporter is into , and and works with the . The is a volunteer-driven movement to provide with foundational computational skills in technologies like 🐍, ⌨️ and 💻

@pip works in for at

@safiyanoble is the author of "Algorithms of Oppression", which if you haven't read it, should be on your reading list, especially if you're into or . It sits in a similar space to @VirginiaEubanks "Automating Inequality" and shows how algorithms serve to reinforce existing structures of oppression, particularly of POC.

@fionatribe is a person who is interested in , and

@metasecsol works as an researcher at the and as a in

#fediverse #connectionlist #introduction #connections #phd #digitalethnography #researcher #socialmedia #creativelabour #creativeindustries #socialscience #data #dataequity #carpentries #researchers #python #git #hpc #programming #design #ai #csiro #productmanagement #aiethics #fairml #CulturalAnthropology #materialculture #architecture #anthropology #infosec #w3 #Lecturer #informationsecurity #devsecops

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