Have been enjoying some research time British Library Looking at British East India Company women and families #eastindiacompany #eighteenthcentury #letters #research #women

More research! This time National Portrait Gallery Heinz Archive & Library. Spotted this sign while using the ablutions ☺️

Album leaf of a woman wearing high brown pattens, high headdress (tantura). Possibly on her way to the hammam. From: 'A briefe relation of the Turckes, their kings, Emperors, or Grandsigneurs, their conquests, religion, customes, habbits, etc'. 1618 (British Museum)

Still-Life with a Group of Muffs, a Pair of Gloves, and Two Kerchiefs Wenceslaus Hollar, Antwerp, 1647. (Art Institute Chicago)

New on All Things Georgian, 'Guest post by Nick Bromley 'Cakes and Ale: Mr Robert Baddeley and his Twelfth Night Cakes' - wp.me/p3JTNy-7aH #MondayBlogs

Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in the eighteenth-century. You see a waiter collecting food to serve to tables. He wears the same number on his jacket as the table he serves. You'd eat wafer-thin ham, heart cakes, cheese cakes or maybe jelly. More here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/dallying-and…

📢 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' online conference tickets now live - international speakers explore many aspects of dress 1714-1815 Full details of the conference programme on our costumesociety.org.uk/conference Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado… #fashionhistory#cossoc25

📢 Session 1 of The Costume Society's 2025 Conference 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' Sat 18/10 2-4pm with . Summer Anne Lee Arteguidata & Gabriela Juranek Tickets eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…

In a mad world, simple creative pleasures are golden. I still have many of the paper dolls I collected as a child and Clare Hunter writes about this amongst other things in her wonderful new book Making Matters. I love this late #1840s Jenny Lind set Cooper Hewitt Clare Hunter

Save Gaza’s archaeological and Ancient past 👇🏻 bbc.co.uk/news/resources…

For this year’s DATS conference, Emmy Sale PhD student at De Monfort University / Hockey Museum will present their paper ‘Dressed for the Field: uncovering the history of women’s hockey clothing using The Hockey Museum collection’ More details below bit.ly/46YW6Rk

Took a break from writing to visit Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft It Takes a Village. Enjoyed the Deco portrait and cape combo, plus sensitively handled Gill Family display #textiles #portrait #survivors

For this year’s DATS conference, Shilei Zeng from V&A , will present their paper ‘Reading the Fragment: Chinese Silk Scraps and Their British Afterlives’. For more details about the conference and how to get tickets see link below. https:// bit.ly/46YW6Rk

At Greggs in High Holborn there is - according to this eighteenth-century newspaper - 'as good CHOCOLATE as can be made in England.' Well done Greggs! (I have a family member who loves Greggs so much he tried to take his wife there on Valentine's Day.)

In this week’s blog post, Costume Society member Maggi Garfield reviews the recent Rainbow exhibition held at the The School of Historical Dress. Read now at: costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/rain…

↘️ Read about the floating C18 Mantua. An innovative way of displaying historic costume that allows you to see the construction of its back

For this year’s Dats conference, Amy de la Haye from London Collage of Fashion, will present their paper ‘Making Mischief in Museums: working with communities’. For more details about this year’s conference and presenters see the link below bit.ly/4kbsxyU

A tremendously rich morning session DATS 50th anniversary conference. Particular highlights: C18 textile afterlives, 90s #subculture #collecting, Keralan #textiles in #materialpractise and locating interpersonal provenance through online sources. Plus hockey 🏑 skirts!

Loving the C18 vibe of Oliver Messel NymansNT plus a fascinating Indian Panka hand held style fan he made at only 14 #fan #portrait #theatrical #craft #making